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AlmaLinux 8 : container-tools (ALSA-2024:4246)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 201545

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2024:4246 advisory.

 * golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-4246.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 201545

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2024-4246.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2024

Updated: 7/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2024-24786

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:fuse-overlayfs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:crit, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:cockpit-podman, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:criu-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-criu, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:containernetworking-plugins, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:buildah-tests, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-catatonit, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:buildah, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:containers-common, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:skopeo-tests, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:criu, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:conmon, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-podman, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libslirp, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:runc, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:crun, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:udica, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:criu-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:container-selinux, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:aardvark-dns, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:libslirp-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:slirp4netns, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:netavark, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:toolbox, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:toolbox-tests

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24786

CWE: 835