RHEL 7 : openvswitch (RHSA-2021:2077)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 149839

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for openvswitch.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2077 advisory.

Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

Security Fix(es):

* lldpd: buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c (CVE-2015-8011)

* openvswitch: limitation in the OVS packet parsing in userspace leads to DoS (CVE-2020-35498)

* lldp/openvswitch: denial of service via externally triggered memory leak (CVE-2020-27827)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL openvswitch package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:2077.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 149839

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2077.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/21/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8011

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-openvswitch, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8011, CVE-2020-27827, CVE-2020-35498

CWE: 120, 400

RHSA: 2021:2077

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