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SUSE SLED15: netty / netty-javadoc / netty-poms / netty-tcnative / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2974-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178933

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2974-1 advisory.

 Upgrade to upstream version 4.1.94:

 - CVE-2023-34462: Allow to limit the maximum lenght of the ClientHello (bsc#1212637).

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1212637

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34462

http://www.nessus.org/u?9c355565

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178933

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2974-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

Percentile: 96.54

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netty-tcnative, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netty, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netty-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:netty-poms

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-34462

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2974-1