CVE-2026-5265
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
Priority: 0.04
BB Relevance:
63/100
Published: 2026-04-24
Modified: 2026-10-26
First seen: 2026-10-29
Status: active
Attack Surface
Network
No Auth
No Interaction
CVSS Vector Breakdown
AV:
Network
AC:
High
PR:
None
UI:
None
S:
Unchanged
C:
Low
I:
None
A:
High
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.