RHEL 8 : container-tools:rhel8 (RHSA-2021:1796)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149688

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-2021:1796 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* golang: crypto/ssh: crafted authentication request can lead to nil pointer dereference (CVE-2020-29652)

* podman: Remote traffic to rootless containers is seen as orginating from localhost (CVE-2021-20199)

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 8.4 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?862005a9

http://www.nessus.org/u?beb91544

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1796

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1707078

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724946

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1726442

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1763007

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1770037

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798278

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811773

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1838233

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1841485

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1844199

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853455

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1860176

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1867892

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1881894

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897282

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897594

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902979

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903813

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1904549

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1908883

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1915383

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918554

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919050

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1921128

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1923986

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924146

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1931545

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1931785

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932083

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1935376

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1935922

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1936927

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1937487

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1938234

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149688

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1796.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20199

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

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-plugins, 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: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: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-29652, CVE-2021-20199

CWE: 346, 476

RHSA: 2021:1796