The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8112 advisory.

    The buildah package provides a tool for facilitating building OCI container images. Among other things,     buildah enables you to: Create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting     point; Create an image, either from a working container or using the instructions in a Dockerfile; Build     both Docker and OCI images.

    Security Fix(es):

    * go/parser: golang: Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply nested literals can cause a     panic/stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34155)

    * 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)

    * go/build/constraint: golang: Calling Parse on a // +build build tag line with deeply nested     expressions can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34158)

    * Podman: Buildah: cri-o: FIPS Crypto-Policy Directory Mounting Issue in containers/common Go Library     (CVE-2024-9341)

    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.

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RHEL 9 : buildah (RHSA-2024:8112)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 209039

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Version 1.2 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411052132
Version 1.1 Oct 15, 2024, 9:29 PM New Plugin Feed: 202410152129