The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1762 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * psgo: Privilege escalation in 'podman top' (CVE-2022-1227)

    * prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)

    * podman: Default inheritable capabilities for linux container should be empty (CVE-2022-27649)

    * crun: Default inheritable capabilities for linux container should be empty (CVE-2022-27650)

    * buildah: Default inheritable capabilities for linux container should be empty (CVE-2022-27651)

    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 8.6 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.

Detections

Analytics

RHEL 8 : container-tools:rhel8 (RHSA-2022:1762)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161023

Version 1.12

Version 1.11

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.12 Nov 7, 2024, 5:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071729
Version 1.11 Nov 5, 2024, 6:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051829
Version 1.9 Oct 27, 2023, 4:19 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202310271619
Version 1.8 May 25, 2023, 3:03 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305251503
Version 1.7 Jan 23, 2023, 9:47 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301232147