The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0121 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * golang: archive/tar: unbounded memory consumption when reading headers (CVE-2022-2879)

    * golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy should not forward unparseable query parameters (CVE-2022-2880)

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

    * golang: regexp/syntax: limit memory used by parsing regexps (CVE-2022-41715)

    * golang: crypto/tls: slow verification of certificate chains containing large RSA keys (CVE-2023-29409)

    * golang: html/template:  improper handling of HTML-like comments within script contexts (CVE-2023-39318)

    * golang: html/template: improper handling of special tags within script contexts (CVE-2023-39319)

    * golang: crypto/tls: panic when processing post-handshake message on QUIC connections (CVE-2023-39321)

    * golang: crypto/tls: lack of a limit on buffered post-handshake (CVE-2023-39322)

    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.

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 8 : container-tools:4.0 (RHSA-2024:0121)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187887

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.0

Version 1.3 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.0 Jan 10, 2024, 5:28 PM New Plugin Feed: 202401101728