RHEL 9 : skopeo (RHSA-2024:7821)

high Nessus Plugin ID 208307

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for skopeo.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:7821 advisory.

The skopeo command lets you inspect images from container image registries, get images and image layers, and use signatures to create and verify files.

Security Fix(es):

* encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34156)

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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL skopeo package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:7821.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 208307

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-7821.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/8/2024

Updated: 10/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2024-34156

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo-tests, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2

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: 10/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-34156

CWE: 674

RHSA: 2024:7821

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