High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Oct 6, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-5366

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.

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Affected products

Openvswitch/Openvswitchllm-fuzzy2 versions
(expand)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)
- cpe:2.3:a:openvswitch:openvswitch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2023-02-28
Red Hat/Virtualizationcpe-rescue2 versions
cpe:/:redhat:enterprise_linux:::hypervisor+ 1 more
- cpe:/:redhat:enterprise_linux:::hypervisor
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Fast Datapathcpe-rescue4 versions
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::fastdatapath+ 3 more
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::fastdatapath
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::fastdatapath
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::fastdatapath
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:fast_datapath:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Fedorahosted/Fedoracpe-rescue
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Servercpe-rescue2 versions
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7+ 1 more
- cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Openshift Container Platform3 versions
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:3.11
- cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
osv-coords28 versions
pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP6-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP6 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5 pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch3&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6 pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1 pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Legacy%2015%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP5 pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5 pkg:rpm/opensuse/openvswitch3&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5
< 3.1.7-150600.33.9.1+ 27 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150600.33.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150600.33.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150500.3.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-4.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-slfo.1.1_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.7-150600.33.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150300.19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150300.19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.14.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-150500.3.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150300.19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.13.2-150200.9.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.14.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150300.19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150300.19.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.13.2-150200.9.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.13.2-150200.9.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.13.2-150200.9.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.14.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.14.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.14.2-150400.24.14.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-150500.3.11.1
Red Hat/Openstackcpe-rescue2 versions
cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:16.1+ 1 more
- cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:16.1
- cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:16.2

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5366nvdThird Party Advisory
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/08/4nvd
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00004.htmlnvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LFZADABUDOFI2KZIRQBYFZCIKH55RGY3/nvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VYYUBF6OW2JG7VOFEOROHXGSJCTES3QO/nvd

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