RHEL 9 : containernetworking-plugins (RHSA-2024:3831)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200419

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for containernetworking-plugins.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3831 advisory.

The Container Network Interface (CNI) project consists of a specification and libraries for writing plug- ins for configuring network interfaces in Linux containers, along with a number of supported plug-ins. CNI concerns itself only with network connectivity of containers and removing allocated resources when the container is deleted.

Security Fix(es):

* golang: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm (CVE-2023-45290)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL containernetworking-plugins package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:3831.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268017

http://www.nessus.org/u?58d2fdf7

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3831

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200419

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-3831.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/12/2024

Updated: 11/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45290

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:containernetworking-plugins, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 6/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45290

CWE: 20

IAVA: 2024-A-0356

RHSA: 2024:3831