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RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2024:6194)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206496

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:6194 advisory.

 The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

 Security Fix(es):

 * golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm (CVE-2024-24783)

 * go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file (CVE-2024-6104)

 * gorilla/schema: Potential memory exhaustion attack due to sparse slice deserialization (CVE-2024-37298)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL podman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:6194.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268019

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294000

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295010

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-40804

http://www.nessus.org/u?e085c7c1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6194

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206496

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-6194.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/3/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6104

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman

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: 9/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-24783, CVE-2024-37298, CVE-2024-6104

CWE: 400, 532, 770

RHSA: 2024:6194