Name | CVE-2023-20897 |
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.
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Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 1051504 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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salt (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2014.1.13+ds-3+deb8u2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2016.11.2+ds-1+deb9u10 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u3 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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salt | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
salt | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
salt | source | buster | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
salt | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1051504 |
Notes
[buster] - salt <end-of-life> (EOL in buster LTS)
https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/64061