CVE-2026-5265

MEDIUM

Ovn: ovn: heap over-read in icmp error response generation - security issue

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 25.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-130
Status published
Products (11)
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 0:21.12.0-145.el8fdp
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 0:23.06.4-30.el8fdp
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 0:23.06.4-30.el9fdp
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 0:23.09.6-16.el9fdp
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 0:24.03.7-82.el9fdp
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 0:25.03.2-100.el9fdp
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 0:25.09.2-103.el9fdp
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for RHEL 10
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for RHEL 7
Red Hat/Fast Datapath for RHEL 8
... and 1 more
Published Apr 24, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 24, 2026