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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Ovn: ovn: heap over-read in icmp error response generation - security issue | |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-130 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7::fastdatapath cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::fastdatapath cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::fastdatapath |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2026-04-24T12:25:06.808Z
Updated: 2026-04-24T18:21:26.388Z
Reserved: 2026-03-31T17:33:09.225Z
Link: CVE-2026-5265
Updated: 2026-04-24T13:37:06.533Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-04-24T13:16:21.770
Modified: 2026-04-24T14:39:28.770
Link: CVE-2026-5265