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RHEL 9 : openvswitch3.1 (RHSA-2024:1227)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 191723
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for openvswitch3.1.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1227 advisory.- openvswsitch: ovs-vswitch fails to recover after malformed geneve metadata packet (CVE-2023-3966)
- openvswitch: openvswitch don't match packets on nd_target field (CVE-2023-5366)
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 RHEL openvswitch3.1 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:1227.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?253e9fc4
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1227
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178363
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 191723
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1227.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 3/7/2024
Updated: 4/28/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.6
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5366
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 4.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch3.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch3.1-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch3.1-ipsec, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openvswitch3.1-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-openvswitch3.1
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: 3/7/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2023-3966, CVE-2023-5366