SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2018:0311-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 106555

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for openvswitch fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2017-9263: While parsing an OpenFlow role status message, there is a call to the abort() functio for undefined role status reasons in the function `ofp_print_role_status_message` in `lib/ofp-print.c` that may be leveraged toward a remote DoS attack by a malicious switch. (bsc#1041470)

- CVE-2017-9265: Buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message sent from the controller in `lib/ofp-util.c` in the function `ofputil_pull_ofp15_group_mod`.(bsc#1041447)

- CVE-2017-9214: While parsing an OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REPLY type OFP 1.0 message, there is a buffer over-read that is caused by an unsigned integer underflow in the function `ofputil_pull_queue_get_config_reply10` in `lib/ofp-util.c`. (bsc#1040543)

- CVE-2017-14970: In lib/ofp-util.c, there are multiple memory leaks while parsing malformed OpenFlow group mod messages.(bsc#1061310)

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

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2018-229=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-229=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 106555

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0311-1.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/1/2018

Updated: 9/10/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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 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:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-dpdk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-dpdk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-dpdk-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-dpdk-switch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-dpdk-switch-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-switch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch-switch-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 1/31/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14970, CVE-2017-9214, CVE-2017-9263, CVE-2017-9265

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