| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 95 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-3966 | 22 Feb 202413:15 | – | attackerkb | |
| CVE-2023-3966 | 22 Feb 202412:15 | – | alpinelinux | |
| Astra Linux – Vulnerability in OpenVSwitch | 20 May 202605:53 | – | astralinux | |
| The vulnerability of the packet-filtering filter in TC Flower software for multi-level switches like Open vSwitch (OvS) allows a hacker to cause a service failure. | 15 Feb 202400:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2023-3966 affecting package openvswitch for versions less than 2.17.9-1 | 6 Jun 202419:53 | – | cbl_mariner | |
| CVE-2023-3966 affecting package openvswitch for versions less than 3.3.0-1 | 19 Mar 202417:21 | – | cbl_mariner | |
| CVE-2023-3966 | 9 Feb 202404:11 | – | circl | |
| Open vSwitch Security Vulnerabilities | 8 Feb 202400:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| CVE-2023-3966 | 22 Feb 202412:15 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2023-3966 Openvswsitch: ovs-vswitch fails to recover after malformed geneve metadata packet | 22 Feb 202412:15 | – | cvelist |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2025-4.0-0879. The text
# itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(266332);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/10/01");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-3966");
script_name(english:"Photon OS 4.0: Openvswitch PHSA-2025-4.0-0879");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update of the openvswitch package has been released.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-879.md");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected Linux 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:U/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:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-3966");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/02/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/09/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/10/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:openvswitch");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:4.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var _release = get_kb_item('Host/PhotonOS/release');
if (isnull(_release) || _release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'PhotonOS');
if (_release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 4\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'PhotonOS 4.0');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'PhotonOS', cpu);
var flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-4.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'openvswitch-2.17.12-1.ph4')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-4.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'openvswitch-devel-2.17.12-1.ph4')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-4.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'openvswitch-devel-static-2.17.12-1.ph4')) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:'PhotonOS-4.0', cpu:'x86_64', reference:'openvswitch-doc-2.17.12-1.ph4')) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'openvswitch');
}
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