The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2988 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * urllib3: urllib3 does not remove the authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect     (CVE-2018-25091)

    * golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large     exponents (CVE-2021-33198)

    * golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (CVE-2021-34558)

    * 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: 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)

    * golang: net/http/internal: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Consumption via HTTP requests     (CVE-2023-39326)

    * golang: crypto/tls: Timing Side Channel attack in RSA based TLS key exchanges. (CVE-2023-45287)

    * urllib3: Request body not stripped after redirect from 303 status changes request method to GET     (CVE-2023-45803)

    * ssh: Prefix truncation attack on Binary Packet Protocol (BPP) (CVE-2023-48795)

    * moby/buildkit: Possible race condition with accessing subpaths from cache mounts (CVE-2024-23650)

    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 8.10 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.

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RHEL 8 : container-tools:rhel8 (RHSA-2024:2988)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 197773

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Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 5:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:P") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to "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") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071729
Version 1.1 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.0 May 23, 2024, 6:06 PM New Plugin Feed: 202405231806