RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2024:2548)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194821

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for podman.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2548 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 Fixes:

* podman: golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)

* podman: buildah: full container escape at build time (CVE-2024-1753)

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.

Bug Fixes:

* liveness probe not called by podman when using httpGet (JIRA:RHEL-28633)

* Unable to copy image from one virtual machine to another using podman image scp (JIRA:RHEL-28629)

* [v4.9] Backport two docker CLI compatibility fixes (JIRA:RHEL-28636)

* Issue in podman causing S2I to fail in overwriting ENTRYPOINT (JIRA:RHEL-14922)

* Need to backport podman fix for SIGSEGV in RHEL 9.3/8.9 for UBI based containers (JIRA:RHEL-26843)

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 podman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2548.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ae46519

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2548

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-14922

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28629

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28636

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-30886

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194821

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2548.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1753

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1753, CVE-2024-24786

CWE: 269, 835

RHSA: 2024:2548