SUSE SLES10 Security Update : ofed (SUSE-SU-2012:1708-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83571

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update of ofed fixed multiple issues (including security related flaws) :

- sdp: move histogram allocation from stack to heap (bnc#706175)

- cma: Fix crash in request handlers (bnc#678795, CVE-2011-0695)

- rds: set correct msg_namelen (bnc#773383, CVE-2012-3430)

- cm: Bump reference count on cm_id before invoking (bnc#678795, CVE-2011-0695)

- sdp / ipath: Added fixes for 64bit divide on 32bit builds

- updated Infiniband sysconfig file to match openibd (bnc#721597)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ofed packages

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83571

File Name: suse_SU-2012-1708-1.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-smp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-kdumppae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-cxgb3-nic-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-cxgb3-nic-kmp-vmipae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-debug, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-cxgb3-nic-kmp-vmi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-cxgb3-nic-kmp-debug, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-cxgb3-nic-kmp-smp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-vmipae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-kdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-cxgb3-nic-kmp-bigsmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-bigsmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-vmi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-cxgb3-nic-kmp-kdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-cxgb3-nic-kmp-kdumppae, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-doc

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: 12/27/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0695, CVE-2012-3430

BID: 46839, 54702

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