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SUSE: CVE-2023-20897: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2023-20897: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2023
Created
09/30/2023
Added
09/29/2023
Modified
09/29/2023

Description

Salt masters prior to 3005.2 or 3006.2 contain a DOS in minion return. After receiving several bad packets on the request server equal to the number of worker threads, the master will become unresponsive to return requests until restarted.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-python3-salt
  • suse-upgrade-salt
  • suse-upgrade-salt-api
  • suse-upgrade-salt-bash-completion
  • suse-upgrade-salt-cloud
  • suse-upgrade-salt-doc
  • suse-upgrade-salt-fish-completion
  • suse-upgrade-salt-master
  • suse-upgrade-salt-minion
  • suse-upgrade-salt-proxy
  • suse-upgrade-salt-ssh
  • suse-upgrade-salt-standalone-formulas-configuration
  • suse-upgrade-salt-syndic
  • suse-upgrade-salt-tests
  • suse-upgrade-salt-transactional-update
  • suse-upgrade-salt-zsh-completion

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