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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2024:0553-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190833

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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-2024:0553-1 advisory.

 - openvswitch 2.17.8 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the function xmalloc__ in openvswitch-2.17.8/lib/util.c. (CVE-2024-22563)

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?f11a2141

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-22563

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1219059

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190833

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0553-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2024

Updated: 2/24/2024

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-22563

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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: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: 2/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-22563

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0553-1