CVE-2026-74701

A flaw was found in the Open vSwitch component of the Linux kernel. When a specially crafted packet with ETHPTEB protocol arrives on an ARPHRDNONE device, the keyextract function does not properly verify the Ethernet header length. This oversight allows a remote attacker to trigger a kernel bug,...

CVE-2026-74701 net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in key_extract()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in keyextract When a packet arrives on an ARPHRDNONE device e.g. TUN, ovsflowkeyextract trusts the user-provided skb-protocol field: if it is ETHPTEB, the packet is classified as...