CVE-2023-5366
Moderate
CVE-2023-5366
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.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
October 6, 2023
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 23, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2023-5366
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/08/4
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5366
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2006347
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00004.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LFZADABUDOFI2KZIRQBYFZCIKH55RGY3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VYYUBF6OW2JG7VOFEOROHXGSJCTES3QO/