The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6402 advisory.

    The Container Network Interface (CNI) project consists of a specification and libraries for writing plug-     ins for configuring network interfaces in Linux containers, along with a number of supported plug-ins. CNI     concerns itself only with network connectivity of containers and removing allocated resources when the     container is deleted.

    Security Fix(es):

    * golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace (CVE-2023-24540)

    * net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding (CVE-2022-41723)

    * golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics (CVE-2022-41724)

    * golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2022-41725)

    * golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation (CVE-2023-24534)

    * golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption     (CVE-2023-24536)

    * golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters (CVE-2023-24538)

    * golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values (CVE-2023-24539)

    * golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes (CVE-2023-29400)

    * golang: net/http: insufficient sanitization of Host header (CVE-2023-29406)

    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 9.3 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.

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RHEL 9 : containernetworking-plugins (RHSA-2023:6402)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 185099

Version 1.2