RHEL 7 : openvswitch2.11 and ovn2.11 (RHSA-2021:0931)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 147881

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0931 advisory.

- lldpd: buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c (CVE-2015-8011)

- dpdk: librte_vhost Integer overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base() (CVE-2020-10722)

- dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair() (CVE-2020-10723)

- dpdk: librte_vhost Missing inputs validation in Vhost-crypto (CVE-2020-10724)

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 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8011

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10722

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10723

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10724

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0931

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1828867

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1828874

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1828884

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1896536

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 147881

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-0931.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2021

Updated: 1/23/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8011

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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch-selinux-extra-policy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.11-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.11-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovn2.11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovn2.11-central, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovn2.11-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ovn2.11-vtep, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-openvswitch2.11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8011, CVE-2020-10722, CVE-2020-10723, CVE-2020-10724

CWE: 120, 125, 190

RHSA: 2021:0931