SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kubernetes1.23 (SUSE-SU-2023:2292-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176412

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2292-1 advisory.

- add kubernetes1.18-client-common as conflicts with kubernetes-client-bash-completion

- Split individual completions into separate packages

Update to version 1.23.17:

* releng: Update images, dependencies and version to Go 1.19.6
* Update golang.org/x/net to v0.7.0
* Pin golang.org/x/net to v0.4.0
* add scale test for probes
* use custom dialer for http probes
* use custom dialer for tcp probes
* add custom dialer optimized for probes
* egress_selector: prevent goroutines leak on connect() step.
* tls.Dial() validates hostname, no need to do that manually
* Fix issue that Audit Server could not correctly encode DeleteOption
* Do not include scheduler name in the preemption event message
* Do not leak cross namespace pod metadata in preemption events
* pkg/controller/job: re-honor exponential backoff
* releng: Update images, dependencies and version to Go 1.19.5
* Bump Konnectivity to v0.0.35
* Improve vendor verification works for each staging repo
* Update to go1.19
* Adjust for os/exec changes in 1.19
* Update golangci-lint to 1.46.2 and fix errors
* Match go1.17 defaults for SHA-1 and GC
* update golangci-lint to 1.45.0
* kubelet: make the image pull time more accurate in event
* change k8s.gcr.io/pause to registry.k8s.io/pause
* use etcd 3.5.6-0 after promotion
* changelog: CVE-2022-3294 and CVE-2022-3162 were fixed in v1.23.14
* Add CVE-2021-25749 to CHANGELOG-1.23.md
* Add CVE-2022-3294 to CHANGELOG-1.23.md
* kubeadm: use registry.k8s.io instead of k8s.gcr.io
* etcd: Updated to v3.5.5
* Bump konnectivity network proxy to v0.0.33. Includes a couple bug fixes for better handling of dial failures. [Agent & Server](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/apiserver-network-proxy/commits/v0.0.33) include numerous other fixes.
* kubeadm: allow RSA and ECDSA format keys in preflight check
* Fixes kubelet log compression on Windows
* Reduce default gzip compression level from 4 to 1 in apiserver
* exec auth: support TLS config caching
* Marshal MicroTime to json and proto at the same precision
* Windows: ensure runAsNonRoot does case-insensitive comparison on user name
* update structured-merge-diff to 4.2.3
* Add rate limiting when calling STS assume role API
* Fixing issue in generatePodSandboxWindowsConfig for hostProcess containers by where pod sandbox won't have HostProcess bit set if pod does not have a security context but containers specify HostProcess.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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 kubernetes1.23-client and / or kubernetes1.23-client-common packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176412

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2292-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/26/2023

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3294

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:kubernetes1.23-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kubernetes1.23-client-common, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 5/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25749, CVE-2022-3162, CVE-2022-3294

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2292-1

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