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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : podman (SUSE-SU-2023:1812-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174144

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1812-1 advisory.

 - A Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) flaw was found in podman. This issue may allow a malicious user to replace a normal file in a volume with a symlink while exporting the volume, allowing for access to arbitrary files on the host file system. (CVE-2023-0778)

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 podman and / or podman-cni-config packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1197093

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1208364

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1208510

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1209495

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0778

http://www.nessus.org/u?65591fae

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174144

File Name: suse_SU-2023-1812-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2023

Updated: 7/14/2023

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: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0778

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:podman-cni-config, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 4/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0778

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:1812-1