RHEL 8 : openvswitch2.13 (RHSA-2023:0685)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 171235

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0685 advisory.

- openvswitch: Out-of-Bounds Read in Organization Specific TLV (CVE-2022-4337)

- openvswitch: Integer Underflow in Organization Specific TLV (CVE-2022-4338)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 171235

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0685.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/9/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4338

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.13-ipsec, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:network-scripts-openvswitch2.13, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.13, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.13-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch2.13-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-openvswitch2.13

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: 2/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4337, CVE-2022-4338

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2023:0685

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