SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2023:4661-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186636

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4661-1 advisory.

- A flaw was found in Open vSwitch that allows ICMPv6 Neighbor Advertisement packets between virtual machines to bypass OpenFlow rules. This issue may allow a local attacker to create specially crafted packets with a modified or spoofed target IP address field that can redirect ICMPv6 traffic to arbitrary IP addresses. (CVE-2023-5366)

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/1216002

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2023-December/033028.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5366

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186636

File Name: suse_SU-2023-4661-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/7/2023

Updated: 12/21/2023

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: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5366

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovn-docker, 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:openvswitch-ipsec, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovn-vtep, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 12/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5366

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:4661-1