CVE-2025-37998 – Openvswitch Netlink Attribute Parsing Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-37998 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    May. 29, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    openvswitch: Fix unsafe attribute parsing in output_userspace()

    This patch replaces the manual Netlink attribute iteration in
    output_userspace() with nla_for_each_nested(), which ensures that only
    well-formed attributes are processed.

    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0236742bd959332181c1fcc41a05b7b709180501
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47f7f00cf2fa3137d5c0416ef1a71bdf77901395
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fa672cbce9c86c3efb8621df1ae580d47813430
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6beb6835c1fbb3f676aebb51a5fee6b77fed9308
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bca8df998cce1fead8cbc69144862eadc2e34c87
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec334aaab74705cc515205e1da3cb369fdfd93cd
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