Debian dsa-5640 : openvswitch-common - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192117

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5640 advisory.

- A flaw was found in Open vSwitch where multiple versions are vulnerable to crafted Geneve packets, which may result in a denial of service and invalid memory accesses. Triggering this issue requires that hardware offloading via the netlink path is enabled. (CVE-2023-3966)

- A flaw was found in Open vSwitch that allows ICMPv6 Neighbor Advertisement packets between virtual machines to bypass OpenFlow rules. This issue may allow a local attacker to create specially crafted packets with a modified or spoofed target IP address field that can redirect ICMPv6 traffic to arbitrary IP addresses. (CVE-2023-5366)

- openvswitch 2.17.8 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the function xmalloc__ in openvswitch-2.17.8/lib/util.c. (CVE-2024-22563)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the openvswitch-common packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192117

File Name: debian_DSA-5640.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/14/2024

Updated: 3/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-ipsec, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-pki, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-source, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-switch, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-switch-dpdk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-test, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-testcontroller, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvswitch-vtep, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-openvswitch, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3966, CVE-2023-5366, CVE-2024-22563

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