SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2023:2360-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 176646

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2360-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-4338: Fixed Integer Underflow in Organization Specific TLV (bsc#1206580).
- CVE-2022-4337: Fixed Out-of-Bounds Read in Organization Specific TLV (bsc#1206581).
- CVE-2022-32166: Fixed a out of bounds read in minimask_equal() (bsc#1203865).
- CVE-2021-36980: Fixed a use-after-free issue during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action (bsc#1188524).

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 libopenvswitch-2_8-0 and / or openvswitch packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 176646

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2360-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/3/2023

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36980

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4338

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenvswitch-2_8-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvswitch

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: 6/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36980, CVE-2022-32166, CVE-2022-4337, CVE-2022-4338

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2360-1

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