RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2022:8431)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167608

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8431 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):

* podman: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2989)

* buildah: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2990)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* (podman image trust) does not support the new trust type sigstoreSigned (BZ#2120436)

* dnf-update broken for podman/catatonit (BZ#2123319)

* podman creates lock file in /etc/cni/net.d/cni.lock instead of /run/lock/ (BZ#2123905)

* podman kill may deadlock [RHEL 9.1] (BZ#2124716)

* containers config.json gets empty after sudden power loss (BZ#2136278)

* PANIC podman API service endpoint handler panic (BZ#2136287)

Enhancement(s):

* Podman volume plugin timeout should be configurable [rhel-9.1.0 Z] (BZ#2124676)

* [RFE]Podman support to perform custom actions on unhealthy containers (BZ#2136281)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167608

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8431.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/16/2022

Updated: 11/8/2024

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: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2990

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-catatonit, 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: 9/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2989, CVE-2022-2990

CWE: 842

RHSA: 2022:8431

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