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HistoryJan 20, 2022 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 21.10 : Open vSwitch vulnerability (USN-5242-1)

2022-01-2000:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2022-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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15

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

75.5%

The remote Ubuntu 21.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5242-1 advisory.

  • A memory leak was found in Open vSwitch (OVS) during userspace IP fragmentation processing. An attacker could use this flaw to potentially exhaust available memory by keeping sending packet fragments.
    (CVE-2021-3905)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5242-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(156915);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/07/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-3905");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"5242-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 21.10 : Open vSwitch vulnerability (USN-5242-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 21.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5242-1
advisory.

  - A memory leak was found in Open vSwitch (OVS) during userspace IP fragmentation processing. An attacker
    could use this flaw to potentially exhaust available memory by keeping sending packet fragments.
    (CVE-2021-3905)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5242-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-3905");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/01/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/01/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/01/20");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:21.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-ipsec");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-pki");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-source");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-switch");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-switch-dpdk");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-test");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-testcontroller");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-vtep");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-openvswitch");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2022-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('21.10' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 21.10', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'openvswitch-common', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'openvswitch-ipsec', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'openvswitch-pki', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'openvswitch-source', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'openvswitch-switch', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'openvswitch-switch-dpdk', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'openvswitch-test', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'openvswitch-testcontroller', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'openvswitch-vtep', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '21.10', 'pkgname': 'python3-openvswitch', 'pkgver': '2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'openvswitch-common / openvswitch-ipsec / openvswitch-pki / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linux21.10cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:21.10
canonicalubuntu_linuxopenvswitch-commonp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-common
canonicalubuntu_linuxopenvswitch-ipsecp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-ipsec
canonicalubuntu_linuxopenvswitch-pkip-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-pki
canonicalubuntu_linuxopenvswitch-sourcep-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-source
canonicalubuntu_linuxopenvswitch-switchp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-switch
canonicalubuntu_linuxopenvswitch-switch-dpdkp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-switch-dpdk
canonicalubuntu_linuxopenvswitch-testp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-test
canonicalubuntu_linuxopenvswitch-testcontrollerp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-testcontroller
canonicalubuntu_linuxopenvswitch-vtepp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openvswitch-vtep
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7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

75.5%