A flaw was found in Open vSwitch where multiple versions are vulnerable to crafted Geneve packets, which may result in a denial of service and invalid memory accesses. Triggering this issue requires that hardware offloading via the netlink path is enabled.
Weakness
An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Openvswitch | Openvswitch | * | 3.1.0 (excluding) |
| Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | RedHat | openvswitch2.17-0:2.17.0-148.el8fdp | * |
| Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | RedHat | openvswitch3.1-0:3.1.0-96.el8fdp | * |
| Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | openvswitch3.1-0:3.1.0-88.el9fdp | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Openvswitch | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3966
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178363
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFZADABUDOFI2KZIRQBYFZCIKH55RGY3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VYYUBF6OW2JG7VOFEOROHXGSJCTES3QO/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3966
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178363
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFZADABUDOFI2KZIRQBYFZCIKH55RGY3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VYYUBF6OW2JG7VOFEOROHXGSJCTES3QO/