CVE-2024-38558

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: fix overwriting ct original tuple for ICMPv6 OVSPACKETCMDEXECUTE has 3 main attributes: - OVSPACKETATTRKEY - Packet metadata in a netlink format. - OVSPACKETATTRPACKET - Binary packet content. -...

CVE-2024-38558

CVE-2024-38558 concerns the Linux kernel's net/openvswitch handling of ICMPv6 in the OVS_PACKET_CMD_EXECUTE path. The root cause is a misuse of a shared IPv6 field between Neighbor Discovery (ND) state and conntrack original tuple (ct_orig) during packet-key parsing. When parsing ICMPv6, the code...