Debian DLA-3410-1 : openvswitch - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 174966

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3410 advisory.

- A flaw was found in openvswitch (OVS). When processing an IP packet with protocol 0, OVS will install the datapath flow without the action modifying the IP header. This issue results (for both kernel and userspace datapath) in installing a datapath flow matching all IP protocols (nw_proto is wildcarded) for this flow, but with an incorrect action, possibly causing incorrect handling of other IP packets with a != 0 IP protocol that matches this dp flow. (CVE-2023-1668)

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

Solution

Upgrade the openvswitch packages.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 2.10.7+ds1-0+deb10u4.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1034042

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/openvswitch

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2023/dla-3410

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-1668

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/openvswitch

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174966

File Name: debian_DLA-3410.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/1/2023

Updated: 5/1/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, continuous_assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1668

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-testcontroller, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-vtep, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-switch, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-pki, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ovn-controller-vtep, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-openvswitch, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ovn-central, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-openvswitch, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ovn-host, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-dbg

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1668