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Open vSwitch (OVS) is a software-defined networking technology widely used in virtualized environments, cloud fabrics, and container platforms. On WindowsForum.com, discussions focus on OVS vulnerabilities that affect Windows administrators managing mixed estates, Azure Linux, Kubernetes, Hyper-V labs, and WSL-adjacent tooling. Recurring themes include CVE-2025-38146 (MPLS dead loop causing CPU soft locks), CVE-2025-37998 (Azure Linux attestation), CVE-2024-1151 (kernel stack overflow DoS), CVE-2025-40254 (broken NSH action removal), CVE-2026-34956 (FTP ALG DoS), and CVE-2026-31508 (kernel race condition). While these bugs reside in Linux or OVS itself, they matter to Windows teams because Microsoft products like Azure Linux are affected, and OVS underpins critical network virtualization stacks in modern Microsoft-centric environments.
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    CVE-2026-34956: Open vSwitch FTP ALG DoS—Why Windows Teams Should Care

    CVE-2026-34956 is a remote denial-of-service vulnerability in Open vSwitch, disclosed in spring 2026, that can crash affected userspace conntrack deployments when a malformed FTP EPASV command longer than 255 characters is processed by the FTP helper. The uncomfortable part is not that FTP has...
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    CVE-2026-31508 Open vSwitch Linux Kernel Race: Windows Teams Should Patch

    CVE-2026-31508 is a high-severity Linux kernel vulnerability, published April 22, 2026 and modified April 28, affecting Open vSwitch teardown paths where a network device can be freed before unregistration completes, particularly under PREEMPT_RT timing on kernels carrying the vulnerable change...
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    CVE-2025-38146 Open vSwitch MPLS Dead Loop Causes CPU Soft Locks (Azure Linux Attested)

    The Open vSwitch (OVS) MPLS parsing bug tracked as CVE-2025-38146 is a real kernel-level reliability vulnerability that can cause a CPU soft‑lockup by driving the MPLS parsing code into an infinite loop. Multiple independent trackers and downstream advisories confirm the technical root cause and...
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    Azure Linux attestation for CVE-2025-37998: What defenders must know

    Microsoft’s short public answer — that “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” — is accurate as a product‑level attestation, but it is not a categorical guarantee that no other Microsoft product contains the vulnerable Open vSwitch code; operators...
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    CVE-2024-1151 Open vSwitch Kernel DoS: Patch and Protect

    The Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2024-1151 is a stack‑overflow defect in the Open vSwitch (OVS) kernel module that can be triggered by recursive action operations and yields a reliable denial‑of‑service (DoS) — an attacker who can reach the OVS control path can cause the kernel to crash or the...
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    Linux Kernel OVS CVE-2025-40254: Removal of broken set(nsh) action

    The Linux kernel has just closed a long‑standing correctness hole in its Open vSwitch (OVS) code: CVE‑2025‑40254 addresses a broken implementation of the set(nsh(... action that never worked as intended, caused kernel crashes during validation, and has now been removed from stable kernels rather...
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