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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-5366): Open vSwitch vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-5366): Open vSwitch vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/06/2023
Created
11/28/2023
Added
11/27/2023
Modified
03/13/2024

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)

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

References

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