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RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2023:6474)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 185115
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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-2023:6474 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: 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.org/x/net/html: Cross site scripting (CVE-2023-3978)
* 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: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing (CVE-2023-24537)
* golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters (CVE-2023-24538)
* golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values (CVE-2023-24539)
* containerd: Supplementary groups are not set up properly (CVE-2023-25173)
* 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.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?619e5320
http://www.nessus.org/u?6772944e
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173089
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2174485
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2177611
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178358
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178488
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178492
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180108
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182485
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182896
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183597
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183975
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184481
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184482
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184483
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184484
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187187
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188340
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196026
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196027
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196029
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222167
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223350
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2228689
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2229644
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2230212
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2231975
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2232308
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233222
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-3132
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 185115
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6474.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/7/2023
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: High
Score: 7.4
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24540
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.3
Threat Score: 8.9
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3978
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: 11/7/2023
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-41723, CVE-2022-41724, CVE-2022-41725, CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24536, CVE-2023-24537, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-24539, CVE-2023-24540, CVE-2023-25173, CVE-2023-29400, CVE-2023-29406, CVE-2023-3978