RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2022:7954)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167600

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7954 advisory.

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Security Fix(es):

* golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing -u- extension (CVE-2020-28851)

* golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing bcp47 tag (CVE-2020-28852)

* podman: podman machine spawns gvproxy with port bound to all IPs (CVE-2021-4024)

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

* containers/storage: DoS via malicious image (CVE-2021-20291)

* golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (CVE-2021-33197)

* golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (CVE-2021-34558)

* golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)

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 9.1 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 RHEL podman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7954.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1f1eb6cc

http://www.nessus.org/u?5adf518c

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7954

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913333

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913338

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939485

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1972303

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1983596

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1989570

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2026675

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2040379

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064702

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2081349

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2088116

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092798

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2097694

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167600

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7954.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2022

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: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4024

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman

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: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28851, CVE-2020-28852, CVE-2021-20199, CVE-2021-20291, CVE-2021-33197, CVE-2021-34558, CVE-2021-4024, CVE-2022-27191

CWE: 129, 20, 327, 346, 667

RHSA: 2022:7954