vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-37789: kernel: net: openvswitch: fix nested key length validation in the set() action (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jan 29, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: openvswitch: fix nested key length validation in the set() action

It's not safe to access nla_len(ovs_key) if the data is smaller than
the netlink header. Check that the attribute is OK first.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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