CVE-2023-3966

HIGH 7.5

Openvswsitch: ovs-vswitch fails to recover after malformed geneve metadata packet

CVSS Score

7.5

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-248
Vendor	n/a
Product	openvswitch
Published	Feb 22, 2024
Last Updated	Feb 13, 2025

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Affected Versions

n/a / openvswitch

All versions affected

Red Hat / Fast Datapath for RHEL 7

All versions affected

Red Hat / Fast Datapath for RHEL 7

All versions affected

Red Hat / Fast Datapath for RHEL 7

All versions affected

Red Hat / Fast Datapath for RHEL 7

All versions affected

Red Hat / Fast Datapath for RHEL 7

All versions affected