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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : podman (SUSE-SU-2024:2050-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202463

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2050-2 advisory.

 - Update to version 4.9.5
 - CVE-2024-3727: Fixed a flaw that allowed attackers to trigger unexpected authenticated registry accesses on behalf of a victim user, causing resource exhaustion, local path traversal, and other attacks.
 (bsc#1224122)
 - CVE-2024-24786: Fixed an infinite loop in protojson. (bsc#1226136)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 affected podman and / or podman-remote packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224122

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226136

http://www.nessus.org/u?e5cab054

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-24786

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3727

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202463

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2050-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2024

Updated: 7/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3727

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:podman, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24786, CVE-2024-3727

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2050-2