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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-5265"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-24T12:25:06.808Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-17T22:00:07.950Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-5265"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-5265.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5265"
title: "Ovn: ovn: heap over-read in icmp error response generation"
summary: "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."
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