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CVE-2026-64531

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Jul 27, 2026Sources checked Oct 27, 2026
7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10
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Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-64531 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Remediation and response

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 9, 2026

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - Hardware crypto device drivers; - NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; - Network drivers; - USB core drivers; - GFS2 file system; - OCFS2 file system; - SMB network file system; - SoundWire (SDCA) ASoC drivers; - B.A.T.M.A.N.

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Sep 22, 2026
Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - x86 architecture; - InfiniBand drivers; - Network drivers; - NVME drivers; - Ext4 file system; - SMB network file system; - IPv4 networking; - Network traffic control; - TCP network protocol; - Locking primitives; - IPv6 networking; - Multipath TCP; - Netfilter; - Open vSwitch; - SCTP protocol; - SMC sockets; (CVE-2026-31414, CVE-2026-31448, CVE-2026-31705, CVE-2026-43198, CVE-2026-43378, CVE-2026-43499, CVE-2026-46266, CVE-2026-46331, CVE-2026-52924, CVE-2026-52989, CVE-2026-53086, CVE-2026-53176, CVE-2026-53212, CVE-2026-53215, CVE-2026-53224, CVE-2026-53225, CVE-2026-53228, CVE-2026-53246, CVE-2026-53359, CVE-2026-64531)

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Sep 10, 2026

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - Hardware crypto device drivers; - NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; - Network drivers; - GFS2 file system; - OCFS2 file system; - SMB network file system; - B.A.T.M.A.N.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.4%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview

What is CVE-2026-64531?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: openvswitch: reject oversized nested action attrs

Open vSwitch stores generated flow actions as nlattrs, whose nla_len field is u16. Commit a1e64addf3ff ("net: openvswitch: remove misbehaving actions length check") allowed the total sw_flow_actions stream to grow beyond 64 KiB, which is valid, but also removed the last guard preventing a generated nested action attribute from exceeding U16_MAX.

An oversized generated container can thus be closed with a truncated nla_len. A later dump or teardown then walks a structurally different stream than the one that was validated.

In particular, an oversized nested CLONE/CT action may cause subsequent bytes in the generated stream to be interpreted as independent actions.

Keep the larger total-action-stream behavior, but make nested action close reject generated containers that do not fit in nla_len, and return the error through all callers.

For recursive SAMPLE, CLONE, DEC_TTL, and CHECK_PKT_LEN builders, trim resource-owning action-list tails in reverse construction order before discarding failed wrappers, so resources copied into the rejected tails are released before the wrappers are removed.

Most failed outer wrappers are discarded by truncating actions_len after child resources have been released. CHECK_PKT_LEN also trims its parent after branch resources are gone.

SET/TUNNEL close failures unwind their known tun_dst ownership directly, and SET_TO_MASKED has no external ownership and truncates on close failure.

Source: NVD