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RHEL 9 : containernetworking-plugins (RHSA-2024:3831)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 200419
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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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 200419
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-3831.nasl
Version: 1.5
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 6/12/2024
Updated: 11/8/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
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