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Fedora 26 : openvswitch (2017-45625fecca)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 103891

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Add a symlink of the OCF script in the OCF resources folder

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Updated to Open vSwitch 2.7.3 and DPDK 16.11.3 for CVE-2017-14970

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Security fix for CVE-2017-9263, CVE-2017-9265

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Updated to Open vSwitch 2.7.1 and DPDK 16.11.2 (#1468234)

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

Solution

Update the affected openvswitch package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-45625fecca

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 103891

File Name: fedora_2017-45625fecca.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/18/2017

Updated: 11/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9265

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openvswitch, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14970, CVE-2017-9263, CVE-2017-9265