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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2026:0619-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 299932

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2026:0619-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-2182: Fixed insufficient validation of incoming BFD packets may lead to denial of service (bsc#1255435)

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 libopenvswitch-2_11-0 and / or openvswitch packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1255435

http://www.nessus.org/u?96970009

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2182

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 299932

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0619-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2026

Updated: 2/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2182

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libopenvswitch-2_11-0, 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: 2/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2182

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0619-1