Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : OVN vulnerability (USN-7396-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 233561

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7396-1 advisory.

Marius Berntsberg, Trygve Vea, Tore Anderson, Rodolfo Alonso, Jay Faulkner, and Brian Haley discovered that OVN incorrectly handled certain crafted UDP packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass egress ACL rules.

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

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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7396-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 233561

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7396-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/31/2025

Updated: 3/31/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-0650

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ovn-host, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ovn-ic-db, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ovn-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ovn-ic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ovn-controller-vtep, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ovn-central, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-0650

USN: 7396-1