Bug 2484881 (CVE-2026-36499)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-36499 openvswitch: Open vSwitch: Denial of service via resource exhaustion due to missing upper-bound check | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | echaudro, fleitner, ktraynor, rhel-process-autobot, rkhan, watson-tool-maintainers |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in Open vSwitch. A missing upper-bound check in udpif_set_threads() allows an attacker with OVSDB write access to request an excessive number of handler or revalidation threads, causing resource exhaustion and denial of service. Reported against Open vSwitch v3.6.90; affects deployments where OVSDB is writable by untrusted parties.
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Description
OSIDB Bzimport
2026-06-04 19:01:37 UTC
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