CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-5265
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-130
Description
When generating an ICMP Destination Unreachable or Packet Too Big response, the handler copies a portion of the original packet into the ICMP error body using the IP header's self-declared total length (ip_tot_len for IPv4, ip6_plen for IPv6) without validating it against the actual packet buffer size. A VM can send a short packet with an inflated IP length field that triggers an ICMP error (e.g., by hitting a reject ACL), causing ovn-controller to read heap memory beyond the valid packet data and include it in the ICMP response sent back to the VM.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11694 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11695 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11696 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11698 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11700 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11701 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11702 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22110 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22111 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-5265 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2453458 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/20/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/20/4 www.openwall.com