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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2022:3116-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164908

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3116-1 advisory.

 - Open vSwitch (aka openvswitch) 2.11.0 through 2.15.0 has a use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP (called from ofpact_decode and ofpacts_decode) during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action. (CVE-2021-36980)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188524

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-36980

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1ba6c8b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164908

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3116-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36980

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenvswitch-2_14-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovn-central, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovn-host, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libovn-20_06-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-vtep, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovn, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovn-docker, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python3-ovs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-pki, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovn-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovn-vtep, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-ipsec

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: 9/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36980

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3116-1