SUSE SLES12 Security Update : containerd (SUSE-SU-2024:3188-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 206967

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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 a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3188-1 advisory.

- Update to containerd v1.7.21
- CVE-2023-47108: Fixed DoS vulnerability in otelgrpc (uncontrolled resource consumption) due to unbound cardinality metrics. (bsc#1217070)
- CVE-2023-45142: Fixed DoS vulnerability in otelhttp. (bsc#1228553)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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 containerd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1217070

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1217952

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221400

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224323

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228553

http://www.nessus.org/u?d9d73045

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45142

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-45288

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-47108

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 206967

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3188-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/11/2024

Updated: 9/11/2024

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-47108

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:containerd

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: 9/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45142, CVE-2023-45288, CVE-2023-47108

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3188-1