SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2017:2212-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102626

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for openvswitch fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2017-9263: OpenFlow role status message can cause a call to abort() leading to application crash (bsc#1041470)

- CVE-2017-9265: Buffer over-read while parsing message could lead to crash or maybe arbitrary code execution (bsc#1041447)

- Do not restart the ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server services on package updates (bsc#1002734)

- Do not restart the ovs-vswitchd, ovsdb-server and openvswitch services on package removals. This facilitates potential future package moves but also preserves connectivity when the package is removed (bsc#1050896)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2017-1348=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102626

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2212-1.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/21/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9263, CVE-2017-9265

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