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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-5366: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-5366: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/06/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/14/2024

Description

A flaw was found in Open vSwitch that allows ICMPv6 Neighbor Advertisement packets between virtual machines to bypass OpenFlow rules. This issue may allow a local attacker to create specially crafted packets with a modified or spoofed target IP address field that can redirect ICMPv6 traffic to arbitrary IP addresses.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openvswitch

References

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