SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2018:4128-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119720

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openvswitch to version 2.7.6 fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed :

CVE-2018-17205: Prevent OVS crash when reverting old flows in bundle commit (bsc#1104467).

CVE-2018-17206: Avoid buffer overread in BUNDLE action decoding (bsc#1104467).

CVE-2018-17204: When decoding a group mod, it validated the group type and command after the whole group mod has been decoded. The OF1.5 decoder, however, tried to use the type and command earlier, when it might still be invalid. This caused an assertion failure (via OVS_NOT_REACHED) (bsc#1104467).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-2942=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104467

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17204/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17205/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17206/

http://www.nessus.org/u?cfdbe013

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119720

File Name: suse_SU-2018-4128-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/17/2018

Updated: 7/15/2024

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17205

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17204, CVE-2018-17205, CVE-2018-17206