CVE-2026-5265

medium

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.

References

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-24

Updated: 2026-06-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00042