kernel: net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes The patch cited in the Fixes tag below changed the teardown code for OVS ports to no longer unconditionally take the RTNL. After this change, the netdevdestroy...

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 →...

CVE-2026-31508

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes The patch cited in the Fixes tag below changed the teardown code for OVS ports to no longer unconditionally take the RTNL. After this change, the netdevdestroy...

CVE-2026-31508

The CVE-2026-31508 issue affects the Linux kernel in the Open vSwitch teardown path. The root cause is that after a patch, the teardown code for OVS ports no longer unconditionally takes the RTNL, allowing netdev_destroy() to finish and free the netdev before unregistration completes if the IFF_O...

CVE-2023-53843

CVE-2023-53843: In the Linux kernel, net: openvswitch: reject negative ifindex has been fixed. The issue arose from net-next changes that reworked pre‑assigned ifindexes and allowed ovs netdev ports to be created with negative ifindex values, which could be surfaced via certain commands and tools...