RHEL 9 : buildah (RHSA-2024:3827)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200429

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3827 advisory.

The buildah package provides a tool for facilitating building OCI container images. Among other things, buildah enables you to: Create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting point; Create an image, either from a working container or using the instructions in a Dockerfile; Build both Docker and OCI images.

Security Fix(es):

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

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

* buildah: jose: resource exhaustion (CVE-2024-28176)

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 buildah package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:3827.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200429

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-3827.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/12/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-28176

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah-tests, 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, CVE-2024-28176, CVE-2024-28180

CWE: 20, 400, 409

IAVA: 2024-A-0356

RHSA: 2024:3827

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