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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-45840" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-27T09:24:39.478Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:19:42.649Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45840" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45840.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45840" title: "openvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nopenvswitch: cap upcall PID array size and pre-size vport replies\n\nThe vport netlink reply helpers allocate a fixed-size skb with\nnlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, ...) but serialize the full upcall PID\narray via ovs_vport_get_upcall_portids(). Since\novs_vport_set_upcall_portids() accepts any non-zero multiple of\nsizeof(u32) with no upper bound, a CAP_NET_ADMIN user can install a PID\narray large enough to overflow the reply buffer, causing nla_put() to\nfail with -EMSGSIZE and hitting BUG_ON(err \u003c 0). On systems with\nunprivileged user namespaces enabled (e.g., Ubuntu default), this is\nreachable via unshare -Urn since OVS vport mutation operations use\nGENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM.\n\n kernel BUG at net/openvswitch/datapath.c:2414!\n Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 65 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.0.0-rc7-00195-geb216e422044 #1\n RIP: 0010:ovs_vport_cmd_set+0x34c/0x400\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1116)\n genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194)\n netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550)\n genl_rcv (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219)\n netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344)\n netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894)\n __sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2206)\n __x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2209)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nReject attempts to set more PIDs than nr_cpu_ids in\novs_vport_set_upcall_portids(), and pre-compute the worst-case reply\nsize in ovs_vport_cmd_msg_size() based on that bound, similar to the\nexisting ovs_dp_cmd_msg_size(). nr_cpu_ids matches the cap already\nused by the per-CPU dispatch configuration on the datapath side\n(ovs_dp_cmd_fill_info() serialises at most nr_cpu_ids PIDs), so the\ntwo sides stay consistent." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5cd667b0a4567048bb555927d6ee564f4e5620a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d59b80e69dddb665eb2de36e62859ab2073470e"},{"version":"5cd667b0a4567048bb555927d6ee564f4e5620a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9e47e29aacb9f8a9d59feb6ab5b128a9bbb40b0"},{"version":"5cd667b0a4567048bb555927d6ee564f4e5620a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b39f763d720d623218bc1d95ace6855d7b474e81"},{"version":"5cd667b0a4567048bb555927d6ee564f4e5620a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9ef3db77a383d66847fd082c2b437d8ae4d9c63"},{"version":"5cd667b0a4567048bb555927d6ee564f4e5620a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f99ac36b5d7c719d08a69fcdecce40f78a874e15"},{"version":"5cd667b0a4567048bb555927d6ee564f4e5620a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fa6e90bc443bed8dc0d55bc5ea5b27ffdfe37704"},{"version":"5cd667b0a4567048bb555927d6ee564f4e5620a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d6c02b86329883aa467a3a61f8d34369db73a2f"},{"version":"5cd667b0a4567048bb555927d6ee564f4e5620a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2091c6aa0df6aba47deb5c8ab232b1cb60af3519"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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