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{"cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: openvswitch: reject negative ifindex\n\nRecent changes in net-next (commit 759ab1edb56c (\"net: store netdevs\nin an xarray\")) refactored the handling of pre-assigned ifindexes\nand let syzbot surface a latent problem in ovs. ovs does not validate\nifindex, making it possible to create netdev ports with negative\nifindex values. It's easy to repro with YNL:\n\n$ ./cli.py --spec netlink/specs/ovs_datapath.yaml \\\n --do new \\\n\t --json '{\"upcall-pid\": 1, \"name\":\"my-dp\"}'\n$ ./cli.py --spec netlink/specs/ovs_vport.yaml \\\n\t --do new \\\n\t --json '{\"upcall-pid\": \"00000001\", \"name\": \"some-port0\", \"dp-ifindex\":3,\"ifindex\":4294901760,\"type\":2}'\n\n$ ip link show\n-65536: some-port0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000\n link/ether 7a:48:21:ad:0b:fb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff\n...\n\nValidate the inputs. Now the second command correctly returns:\n\n$ ./cli.py --spec netlink/specs/ovs_vport.yaml \\\n\t --do new \\\n\t --json '{\"upcall-pid\": \"00000001\", \"name\": \"some-port0\", \"dp-ifindex\":3,\"ifindex\":4294901760,\"type\":2}'\n\nlib.ynl.NlError: Netlink error: Numerical result out of range\nnl_len = 108 (92) nl_flags = 0x300 nl_type = 2\n\terror: -34\textack: {'msg': 'integer out of range', 'unknown': [[type:4 len:36] b'\\x0c\\x00\\x02\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x0c\\x00\\x03\\x00\\xff\\xff\\xff\\x7f\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x08\\x00\\x01\\x00\\x08\\x00\\x00\\x00'], 'bad-attr': '.ifindex'}\n\nAccept 0 since it used to be silently ignored."}], "id": "CVE-2023-53843", "lastModified": "2025-12-09T18:37:13.640", "metrics": {}, "published": "2025-12-09T16:17:24.613", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/881faff9e548a7ddfb11595be7c1c649217d27db"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a552bfa16bab4ce901ee721346a28c4e483f4066"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c965a58376146dcfdda186819462e8eb3aadef3a"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"}

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