A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (`--userns=auto` in Podman and Buildah). The containers/storage library will read /etc/passwd inside the container, but does not properly validate if that file is a symlink, which can be used to cause the library to read an arbitrary file on the host.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8428 advisory.

    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution     designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

    This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.37. See the     following advisory for the container images for this release:

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8425

    Security Fix(es):

    * encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains     deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion     (CVE-2024-34156)
    * Podman: Buildah: cri-o: FIPS Crypto-Policy Directory Mounting Issue in     containers/common Go Library (CVE-2024-9341)
    * Podman: Buildah: CRI-O: symlink traversal vulnerability in the     containers/storage library can cause Denial of Service (DoS)     (CVE-2024-9676)
    * go/parser: golang: Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply     nested literals can cause a panic/stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34155)
    * go/build/constraint: golang: Calling Parse on a // +build build tag     line with deeply nested expressions can cause a panic due to stack     exhaustion (CVE-2024-34158)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    All OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images     when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the     OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at     https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.15/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8437 advisory.

    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution     designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

    This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.3. See the following     advisory for the container images for this release:

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8434

    Security Fix(es):

    * Podman: Buildah: CRI-O: symlink traversal vulnerability in the     containers/storage library can cause Denial of Service (DoS)     (CVE-2024-9676)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    All OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images     when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the     OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at     https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.17/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8418 advisory.

    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution     designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

    This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.19. See the     following advisory for the container images for this release:

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8418     Security Fix(es):

    * github.com/jaraco/zipp: Denial of Service (infinite loop) via crafted zip     file in jaraco/zipp (CVE-2024-5569)
    * Podman: Buildah: CRI-O: symlink traversal vulnerability in the     containers/storage library can cause Denial of Service (DoS)     (CVE-2024-9676)
    * golang: net/netip: Unexpected behavior from Is methods for IPv4-mapped     IPv6 addresses (CVE-2024-24790)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images     when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the     OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at     https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.16/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-afa796a751 advisory.

    release 1.2.3

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3754-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-9676: Fixed symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library that could cause     Denial of Service (DoS) (bsc#1231698)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3753-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2024-9676: Fixed symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library that could cause     Denial of Service (DoS) (bsc#1231698)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
209928	RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.37 (RHSA-2024:8428)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
209904	RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.3 (RHSA-2024:8437)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
209902	RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.z (RHSA-2024:8418)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
209837	Fedora 40 : podman-tui (2024-afa796a751)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
209813	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : buildah (SUSE-SU-2024:3754-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
209812	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : podman (SUSE-SU-2024:3753-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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