net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-64531
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.38 % · percentile 32 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

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 nla_len field is u16. Commit a1e64addf3ff ("net: openvswitch: remove misbehaving actions length check") allowed the total sw_flow_actions stream to grow beyond 64 KiB, which is valid, but also removed the last guard preventing a generated nested action attribute from exceeding U16_MAX. An oversized generated container can thus be closed with a truncated nla_len. A later dump or teardown then walks a structurally different stream than the one that was validated. In particular, an oversized nested CLONE/CT action may cause subsequent bytes in the generated stream to be interpreted as independent actions. Keep the larger total-action-stream behavior, but make nested action close reject generated containers that do not fit in nla_len, and return the error through all callers. For recursive SAMPLE, CLONE, DEC_TTL, and CHECK_PKT_LEN builders, trim resource-owning action-list tails in reverse construction order before discarding failed wrappers, so resources copied into the rejected tails are released before the wrappers are removed. Most failed outer wrappers are discarded by truncating actions_len after child resources have been released. CHECK_PKT_LEN also trims its parent after branch resources are gone. SET/TUNNEL close failures unwind their known tun_dst ownership directly, and SET_TO_MASKED has no external ownership and truncates on close failure.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 057dbc5b72e9fcac439cd561c3a539b8a0edeb92 < ab855641241387db062a5e41d9ad6b8561542572 ; affected 2532adbfe917c0e71dba2650ffc6efe396314c87 < c66bd2626c2764f23764ff0f8277f44a9cfe8349 ; affected 4b1a0ee6164c7204c68ab5a9c48c07bfe8852485 < d573250d228401f707f4dbc09d11227a6215ee5f ; affected e6610f9c08b4c04cf7949c10fc246c071d00e935 < f1efff8858403191361a01269c6fe8dd7f55a385 ; affected a1e64addf3ff9257b45b78bc7d743781c3f41340 < dbd14f736be02cfe73049bd801af89becd1a0749 ; affected a1e64addf3ff9257b45b78bc7d743781c3f41340 < 1b41cbe05b184f8861712f0806cc0c4f5d8c6dfe
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.14 ; unaffected 0 < 6.14 ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.97 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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