Bug 2237513 (CVE-2023-20897) - CVE-2023-20897 salt: DOS in minion return
Summary: CVE-2023-20897 salt: DOS in minion return
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-20897
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2237514
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-09-05 19:31 UTC by Patrick Del Bello
Modified: 2023-09-05 19:32 UTC (History)
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Description Patrick Del Bello 2023-09-05 19:31:47 UTC
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.


https://saltproject.io/security-announcements/2023-08-10-advisory/

Comment 1 Patrick Del Bello 2023-09-05 19:32:00 UTC
Created salt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2237514]


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