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.

- 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)

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

- 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)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 185115

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6474.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests

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

CWE: 113, 176, 400, 79, 835, 842, 94

RHSA: 2023:6474

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