RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2023:2282)

low Nessus Plugin ID 175436

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-2023:2282 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: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests (CVE-2022-41717)

* golang: crypto/tls: session tickets lack random ticket_age_add (CVE-2022-30629)

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 9.2 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-2023:2282.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153894

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158472

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2158632

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161274

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2166091

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182821

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2282

http://www.nessus.org/u?1c44e323

http://www.nessus.org/u?ecefa061

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998676

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2078411

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092793

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2105173

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2123251

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2141019

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149774

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150430

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152023

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152736

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 175436

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2282.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/12/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30629

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.1

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

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: 5/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-30629, CVE-2022-41717

CWE: 331, 770

RHSA: 2023:2282