SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2023:2251-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 176140

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2251-1 advisory.

- An out-of-bounds read in Organization Specific TLV was found in various versions of OpenvSwitch.
(CVE-2022-4337)

- An integer underflow in Organization Specific TLV was found in various versions of OpenvSwitch.
(CVE-2022-4338)

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 affected libopenvswitch-2_11-0 and / or openvswitch packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 176140

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2251-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2023

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4338

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenvswitch-2_11-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch

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: 5/19/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4337, CVE-2022-4338

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2251-1

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