Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 22, 2024· Updated Feb 13, 2025
Openvswsitch: ovs-vswitch fails to recover after malformed geneve metadata packet
CVE-2023-3966
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.
Affected products
37- cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:3.11
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
- Red Hat/Fast Datapath for RHEL 7v5cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::fastdatapath
- Red Hat/Fast Datapath for RHEL 8v5cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::fastdatapath
- Red Hat/Fast Datapath for RHEL 9v5cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::fastdatapath
- osv-coords30 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch3&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch3&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Legacy%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP6-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3
< 3.1.0-150500.3.16.1+ 29 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-150500.3.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150600.33.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-150500.3.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-150500.3.16.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150300.19.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.13.2-150200.9.34.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150300.19.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.13.2-150200.9.34.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150300.19.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150600.33.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.13.2-150200.9.34.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150300.19.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150600.33.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-4.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-slfo.1.1_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.23.1
- Fedora/Fedorav5
- RDO/OpenStack RDOv5
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
4- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3966mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitreissue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFZADABUDOFI2KZIRQBYFZCIKH55RGY3/mitre
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VYYUBF6OW2JG7VOFEOROHXGSJCTES3QO/mitre
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