CVE-2025-37789 (GCVE-0-2025-37789)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 13:07 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:15
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Title
net: openvswitch: fix nested key length validation in the set() action
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: openvswitch: fix nested key length validation in the set() action It's not safe to access nla_len(ovs_key) if the data is smaller than the netlink header. Check that the attribute is OK first.
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Linux Linux Affected: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 , < 54c6957d1123a2032099b9eab51c314800f677ce (git)
Affected: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 , < 7fcaec0b2ab8fa5fbf0b45e5512364a168f445bd (git)
Affected: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 , < a27526e6b48eee9e2d82efff502c4f272f1a91d4 (git)
Affected: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 , < 1489c195c8eecd262aa6712761ba5288203e28ec (git)
Affected: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 , < 824a7c2df5127b2402b68a21a265d413e78dcad7 (git)
Affected: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 , < be80768d4f3b6fd13f421451cc3fee8778aba8bc (git)
Affected: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 , < 03d7262dd53e8c404da35cc81aaa887fd901f76b (git)
Affected: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 , < 65d91192aa66f05710cfddf6a14b5a25ee554dba (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.293 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.237 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.181 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.135 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.88 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.25 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.4 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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