RHEL 8 : container-tools:4.0 (RHSA-2023:2802)

high Nessus Plugin ID 175871

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for container-tools:4.0.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2802 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)

* golang: go/parser: stack exhaustion in all Parse* functions (CVE-2022-1962)

* golang: net/http: handle server errors after sending GOAWAY (CVE-2022-27664)

* golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Skip (CVE-2022-28131)

* golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30630)

* golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)

* golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30632)

* golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal (CVE-2022-30633)

* golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode (CVE-2022-30635)

* golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)

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

* podman: symlink exchange attack in podman export volume (CVE-2023-0778)

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

* golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service (CVE-2022-32189)

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 8.8 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 container-tools:4.0 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:2802.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175871

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2802.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/16/2023

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: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0778

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2989

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:conmon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:containers-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:crun, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aardvark-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:crit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-catatonit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libslirp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:criu-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:containernetworking-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:container-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udica, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netavark, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:runc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:toolbox-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:criu-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:toolbox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libslirp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:criu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:slirp4netns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse-overlayfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-criu

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: 5/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1705, CVE-2022-1962, CVE-2022-27664, CVE-2022-28131, CVE-2022-2989, CVE-2022-30630, CVE-2022-30631, CVE-2022-30632, CVE-2022-30633, CVE-2022-30635, CVE-2022-32148, CVE-2022-32189, CVE-2022-41717, CVE-2023-0778

CWE: 1325, 200, 367, 400, 444, 770, 842

RHSA: 2023:2802

Detections

Analytics