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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-3966): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-3966): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/22/2024
Created
03/14/2024
Added
03/13/2024
Modified
03/13/2024

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-openvswitch-common
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-openvswitch

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