SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nghttp2 (SUSE-SU-2023:4492-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186025

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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-2023:4492-1 advisory.

- The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)

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/1216123

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1216174

http://www.nessus.org/u?7cc2a047

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-44487

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186025

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4492-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2023

Updated: 2/9/2024

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: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-44487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnghttp2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnghttp2_asio1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnghttp2-14, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnghttp2_asio-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnghttp2-14-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 11/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44487

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4492-1