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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64531"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-27T06:32:32.596Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:38.436Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64531"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64531.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64531"
title: "net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs\n\nOpen vSwitch stores generated flow actions as nlattrs, whose nla_len\nfield is u16. Commit a1e64addf3ff (\"net: openvswitch: remove\nmisbehaving actions length check\") allowed the total sw_flow_actions\nstream to grow beyond 64 KiB, which is valid, but also removed the last\nguard preventing a generated nested action attribute from exceeding\nU16_MAX.\n\nAn oversized generated container can thus be closed with a truncated\nnla_len. A later dump or teardown then walks a structurally different\nstream than the one that was validated. In particular, an oversized\nnested CLONE/CT action may cause subsequent bytes in the generated\nstream to be interpreted as independent actions.\n\nKeep the larger total-action-stream behavior, but make nested action\nclose reject generated containers that do not fit in nla_len, and return\nthe error through all callers. For recursive SAMPLE, CLONE, DEC_TTL, and\nCHECK_PKT_LEN builders, trim resource-owning action-list tails in reverse\nconstruction order before discarding failed wrappers, so resources copied\ninto the rejected tails are released before the wrappers are removed.\n\nMost failed outer wrappers are discarded by truncating actions_len after\nchild resources have been released. CHECK_PKT_LEN also trims its parent\nafter branch resources are gone. SET/TUNNEL close failures unwind their\nknown tun_dst ownership directly, and SET_TO_MASKED has no external\nownership and truncates on close failure."
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