| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3734-1, DSA-5640-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openvswitch (PTS) | buster | 2.10.7+ds1-0+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 2.10.7+ds1-0+deb10u5 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u4 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.1.0-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 3.1.0-2+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 3.3.0~git20240118.e802fe7-3 | fixed |
| sid | 3.3.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2006347
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/694c7b4e097c4d89e23ea9b3c7b677b4fcbe0459 (v3.1.2)
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/489553b1c21692063931a9f50b6849b23128443c (v3.2.0)