CVE-2026-45840

CVE-2026-45840 : The vulnerability in the Linux kernel openvswitch path allows a CAP_NET_ADMIN user to overflow the vport netlink reply buffer by providing a large upcall PID array, triggering a -EMSGSIZE and a kernel BUG. The root cause is ovs_vport_set_upcall_portids() accepting any non-zero mu...

CVE-2026-45840 openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies The vport netlink reply helpers allocate a fixed-size skb with nlmsgnewNLMSGDEFAULTSIZE, ... but serialize the full upcall PID array via ovsvportgetupcallportids...

PT-2026-43674

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description An issue exists in the openvswitch component where vport netlink reply helpers allocate a fixed-size socket buffer skb using nlmsg newNLMSG DEFAULT SIZE, ..., but serialize the full upca...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-45840

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies The vport netlink reply helpers allocate a fixed-size skb with nlmsgnewNLMSGDEFAULTSIZE, ... b...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: OpenVSwitch: fixed the issue where locking occurred when trying to unregister a netdev with a carrier. The commit in the “fixes” tag attempted to fix this issue through the following sequence of calls: dooutput → ovsvportsend →...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: openvswitch: Fixed a memory leak that occurred during failed datapath creation. ovsdpcmdnew - ovsdpchange - ovsdpsetupcallportids allocates an array using kmalloc. If newvport fails during ovsdpcmdnew, dp-upcallportids must be...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: Fixed a possible memory leak in ovsmetercmdset. oldmeter needs to be freed after it is detached, regardless of whether the new meter is successfully attached...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: Fix Use-After-Free in ovsctexit Since kfreercu, which is called during the hlistforeachentryrcu traversal of ovsctlimitexit, is not part of the RCU read critical section, it is possible that the RCU grace period...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: openvswitch: Use RCU protection in ovsvportcmdfillinfo. ovsvportcmdfillinfo can be called without RTNL or RCU. Use RCU protection and devnetrcu to avoid potential UAF Use-After-Free errors...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: net: openvswitch: Fixed a race condition related to port output. Assume the following setup on a single machine: 1. An openvswitch instance with one bridge and default flows. 2. Two network namespaces: “server” and “client”. 3...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: Fix for a flow memory leak in ovsflowcmdnew Syzkaller reported a memory leak in ovsflowcmdnew, as the memory allocated for the flow command does not get freed when an allocation failure occurs. BUG: Memory leak...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inet: inetdefrag: prevent sk release while still in use The functions iplocalout and others can pass skb-sk as a function argument. If the skb is a fragment and reassembly occurs before such a function call returns, the sk must n...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: net: openvswitch: Fixed a leak in nested actions. When parsing user-provided actions, the openvswitch module may dynamically allocate memory and store pointers in the internal copy of the actions. This memory must be freed whe...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in OpenVSwitch

It has been discovered that openvswitch 2.17.8 contains a memory leak due to the xmalloc function in openvswitch-2.17.8/lib/util.c...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in OpenVSwitch

A flaw was discovered in OpenVSwitch OVS. When processing an IP packet with protocol 0, OVS will install a datapath flow without modifying the IP header. This issue results in the installation of a datapath flow that matches all IP protocols with “nwproto” set to wildcard, but with an incorrect...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in OpenVSwitch

An integer underflow occurred in the Organization Specific TLV in various versions of OpenvSwitch...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

An integer coercion error was detected in the openvswitch kernel module. When there are a sufficient number of actions, while copying and reserving memory for a new action of a new flow, the reservesfasize function does not return -EMSGSIZE as expected. This could potentially lead to an...

SUSE-SU-2026:1871-1 Security update for openvswitch

This update for openvswitch fixes the following issue: - CVE-2026-34956: Invalid memory access in conntrack FTP alg bsc1261273...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: fix race on port output CVE-2023-53188 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: properly dereference pe in ipvsaddservice CVE-2024-42322 In the Linux kernel, the...

SUSE CVE-2026-39402

lxc is a Linux container runtime. In the setuid helper lxc-user-nic, the delete path contains a logic flaw in the findline function that allows an unprivileged user to delete OVS-attached network interfaces belonging to other users. When lxc-user-nic delete scans its NIC database to authorize a...