Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch-6_12_0-211_16_1 security update

An update for kpatch-patch-6120-211161 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

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 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 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes The patch cited in the “Fixes” section below changed the teardown code for OVS ports so that it no longer unconditionally takes RTNL. After this change, the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in OpenVSwitch

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

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

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: fixed the nested key length validation in the set action. It is not safe to access nlalenovskey if the data is smaller than the netlink header. Ensure that the attribute is valid first...

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 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 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 Linux 5.10, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: fix flow memory leak in ovsflowcmdnew Syzkaller reports a memory leak of newflow in ovsflowcmdnew as it is not freed when an allocation of a key fails. BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888116668000 siz...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

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 – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.15, 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...

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...

RHEL 9 : kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_117_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_134_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_148_1, kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_158_1, and kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_172_1 (RHSA-2026:59147)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:59147 advisory. This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel. This patc...

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...

EUVD-2026-64388

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...

CVE-2026-74701

This vulnerability affects the Open vSwitch (OVS) component of the Linux kernel in key_extract() within net/openvswitch/flow.c. When a packet with the ETH_P_TEB protocol arrives on an ARPHRD_NONE device (e.g., TUN), the function unconditionally pulls Ethernet header bytes (MAC addresses and ether...

PT-2026-79669

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: reallocate update replies for mismatched IDs ovs flow cmd new preallocates the optional reply skb before it takes ovs mutex and before it knows which existing flow will be updated. That is normally fine because...

K000162959: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2026-64531

Security Advisory Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs Open vSwitch stores generated flow actions as nlattrs, whose nlalen field is u16. Commit a1e64addf3ff "net: openvswitch: remove misbehaving...

Unity Linux 20.1050e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-100169)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-100169 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openvswitch: validate MPLS set/setmasked payload length validateset accepted OVSKEYATTRMPLS as...