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- USN-6690-1
12/3/2024
USN-6690-1: Open vSwitch vulnerabilities
First published: Tue Mar 12 2024(Updated: )
Timothy Redaelli and Haresh Khandelwal discovered that Open vSwitch incorrectly handled certain crafted Geneve packets when hardware offloading via the netlink path is enabled. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Open vSwitch to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-3966) It was discovered that Open vSwitch incorrectly handled certain ICMPv6 Neighbor Advertisement packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to redirect traffic to arbitrary IP addresses. (CVE-2023-5366)
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/openvswitch-common | <3.2.2-0ubuntu0.23.10.1 | 3.2.2-0ubuntu0.23.10.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =23.10 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/python3-openvswitch | <3.2.2-0ubuntu0.23.10.1 | 3.2.2-0ubuntu0.23.10.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =23.10 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/openvswitch-common | <2.17.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 | 2.17.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =22.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/python3-openvswitch | <2.17.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 | 2.17.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =22.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/openvswitch-common | <2.13.8-0ubuntu1.4 | 2.13.8-0ubuntu1.4 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =20.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/python3-openvswitch | <2.13.8-0ubuntu1.4 | 2.13.8-0ubuntu1.4 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =20.04 |
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Reference Links
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5366
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-3966
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6514-1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/3.2.2-0ubuntu0.23.10.1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/2.17.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/2.13.8-0ubuntu1.4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6690-1 (Advisory)
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