AlmaLinux 9 : podman (ALSA-2024:6194)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206609

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2024:6194 advisory.

* 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)

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

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-6194.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206609

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2024-6194.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/4/2024

Updated: 9/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-plugins, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-tests, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos

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

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: 20, 400, 532, 770

IAVB: 2024-B-0020-S