RHEL 8 : container-tools:rhel8 (RHSA-2020:4694)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142451

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4694 advisory.

The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc.

Security Fix(es):

* containernetworking/plugins: IPv6 router advertisements allow for MitM attacks on IPv4 clusters (CVE-2020-10749)

* QEMU: slirp: networking out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2020-10756)

* golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?55d22611

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7e37d18

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4694

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1682970

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1752079

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1785242

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1800815

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801874

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1804193

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1804195

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1813845

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1814928

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1818694

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1821193

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822038

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825789

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1827794

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1833220

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1835986

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1837755

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847544

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1849557

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850230

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853230

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853652

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1857606

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1858862

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1860126

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866153

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866833

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1867447

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868612

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872263

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877463

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879622

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142451

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4694.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10749

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10756

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:conmon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:containers-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:crun, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:crit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-catatonit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libslirp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:containernetworking-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:container-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udica, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:runc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:toolbox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libslirp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:criu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:slirp4netns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse-overlayfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-podman-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-criu

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10749, CVE-2020-10756, CVE-2020-14040

CWE: 125, 300, 835

RHSA: 2020:4694