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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-64531

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 7/27/2026 4:16:22 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

                  
                
              
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs

Open vSwitch stores generated flow actions as nlattrs, whose nla_len
field is u16. Commit a1e64addf3ff ("net: openvswitch: remove
misbehaving actions length check") allowed the total sw_flow_actions
stream to grow beyond 64 KiB, which is valid, but also removed the last
guard preventing a generated nested action attribute from exceeding
U16_MAX.

An oversized generated container can thus be closed with a truncated
nla_len. A later dump or teardown then walks a structurally different
stream than the one that was validated. In particular, an oversized
nested CLONE/CT action may cause subsequent bytes in the generated
stream to be interpreted as independent actions.

Keep the larger total-action-stream behavior, but make nested action
close reject generated containers that do not fit in nla_len, and return
the error through all callers. For recursive SAMPLE, CLONE, DEC_TTL, and
CHECK_PKT_LEN builders, trim resource-owning action-list tails in reverse
construction order before discarding failed wrappers, so resources copied
into the rejected tails are released before the wrappers are removed.

Most failed outer wrappers are discarded by truncating actions_len after
child resources have been released. CHECK_PKT_LEN also trims its parent
after branch resources are gone. SET/TUNNEL close failures unwind their
known tun_dst ownership directly, and SET_TO_MASKED has no external
ownership and truncates on close failure.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b41cbe05b184f8861712f0806cc0c4f5d8c6dfe
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f1f755366687d051174739fb99f7d560202f60b
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab855641241387db062a5e41d9ad6b8561542572
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c66bd2626c2764f23764ff0f8277f44a9cfe8349
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d573250d228401f707f4dbc09d11227a6215ee5f
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbd14f736be02cfe73049bd801af89becd1a0749
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1efff8858403191361a01269c6fe8dd7f55a385
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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