CVE-2025-37998 (GCVE-0-2025-37998)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-29 13:15
Modified
2025-08-09 14:39
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016
Version: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016
Version: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016
Version: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016
Version: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016
Version: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016
Version: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016
Version: ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016
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