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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : buildah (SUSE-SU-2022:1437-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 160285

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1437-1 advisory.

 - A flaw was found in buildah where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty default permissions.
 A bug was found in Moby (Docker Engine) where containers were incorrectly started with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, enabling an attacker with access to programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set when execve(2) runs. This has the potential to impact confidentiality and integrity. (CVE-2022-27651)

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

Solution

Update the affected buildah package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1197870

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27651

http://www.nessus.org/u?fa8ed597

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 160285

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1437-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2022

Updated: 7/13/2023

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-27651

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:buildah

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27651

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1437-1