USN-6259-1: Open-iSCSI vulnerabilities

27 July 2023

Several security issues were fixed in Open-iSCSI.

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Jos Wetzels, Stanislav Dashevskyi, and Amine Amri discovered that
Open-iSCSI incorrectly handled certain checksums for IP packets.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
(CVE-2020-13987)

Jos Wetzels, Stanislav Dashevskyi, Amine Amri discovered that
Open-iSCSI incorrectly handled certain parsing TCP MSS options.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or cause
unexpected behavior. (CVE-2020-13988)

Amine Amri and Stanislav Dashevskyi discovered that Open-iSCSI
incorrectly handled certain TCP data. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2020-17437)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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