SUSE SLES12 Security Update : open-iscsi (SUSE-SU-2022:2861-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164333

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2022:2861-1 advisory.

- CVE-2020-17437: Fixed an out of bounds memory access when the TCP urgent flag is set. (bsc#1179908).

Non-security fixes:

- Fix an issue with ARP booting when using different subnets (bsc#1058463).
- Allow target discovery using 'db' mode (bsc#1109477).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 iscsiuio, open-iscsi and / or open-isns packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164333

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2861-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/23/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.63

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17437

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-isns, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:open-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:iscsiuio

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: 8/22/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-17437

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2861-1

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