The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3968 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

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

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

    * podman: jose-go: resource exhaustion (CVE-2024-28176)

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

    * skopeo: jose-go: resource exhaustion (CVE-2024-28176)

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 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 update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:3968)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200677

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 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: 202411072025
Version 1.1 Jun 18, 2024, 2:27 PM New Plugin Feed: 202406181427