vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2023-3966: openvswsitch: ovs-vswitch fails to recover after malformed geneve metadata packet

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 22, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Open vSwitch where multiple versions are vulnerable to crafted Geneve packets, which may result in a denial of service and invalid memory accesses. Triggering this issue requires that hardware offloading via the netlink path is enabled.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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