CVE-2026-34956

Publication date 5 May 2026

Last updated 13 May 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A flaw was found in Open vSwitch. When Open vSwitch is configured with a conntrack flow using FTP helpers over the userspace datapath, a remote attacker can send a specially crafted FTP stream with an EPASV command exceeding 255 characters. This heap access error can lead to a crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the affected system.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
openvswitch 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

Notes


mdeslaur

Per Debian, introduced in 2.9.0 by: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/bd5e81a0e596dd012d11824cce69b7c80ae107c5

Patch details

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Package Patch details
openvswitch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.9 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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