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openSUSE: 2023:3840-2 Critical: NetworkManager Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2023
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This patch resolves important vulnerabilities in Quagga for Fedora, particularly improvements in OSPF protocol management.
This update for quagga fixes the following issues: CVE-2023-38802: Fixed bad length handling in BGP attribute handling (bsc#1213284).

Description

This update for quagga fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2023-38802: Fixed bad length handling in BGP attribute handling

(bsc#1213284).

* CVE-2023-41358: Fixed possible crash when processing NLRIs if the attribute

length is zero (bsc#1214735).

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Topics Covered

security advisory threat important networking quagga openSUSE attribute fix

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2023-3839=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.4-2023-3839=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-3839=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP4-2023-3839=1

* Server Applications Module 15-SP5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP5-2023-3839=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* quagga-debugsource-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libzebra1-debuginfo-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* quagga-debuginfo-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libospfapiclient0-debuginfo-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libospf0-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* quagga-devel-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libquagga_pb0-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* quagga-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libfpm_pb0-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libfpm_pb0-debuginfo-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libzebra1-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libquagga_pb0-debuginfo-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libospf0-debuginfo-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libospfapiclient0-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* quagga-debugsource-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libzebra1-debuginfo-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* quagga-debuginfo-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libospfapiclient0-debuginfo-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libospf0-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* quagga-devel-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libquagga_pb0-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* quagga-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

* libfpm_pb0-1.1.1-150400.12.5.1

*...

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References

* #1213284

* #1214735

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38802.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-41358.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213284

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214735

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:3839-1
Rating: important

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