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Alpine: multiple openvswitch packages, py3-openvswitch: security update to 2.17.9-r0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 426216

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - A flaw was found in Open vSwitch where multiple versions are vulnerable to crafted Geneve packets, which
 may result in a denial of service and invalid memory accesses. Triggering this issue requires that
 hardware offloading via the netlink path is enabled. (CVE-2023-3966)

 - 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. (CVE-2023-5366)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-3966

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-5366

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 426216

Version: Revision 1.12

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 12/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5366

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3966, CVE-2023-5366