The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3254 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

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

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

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

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

    * jose-go: improper handling of highly compressed data (CVE-2024-28180)

    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:rhel8 (RHSA-2024:3254)

high Nessus Plugin ID 197764

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 2:36 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071436
Version 1.1 Jun 4, 2024, 7:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202406041900
Version 1.0 May 23, 2024, 6:06 PM New Plugin Feed: 202405231806