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AlmaLinux 9 : buildah (ALSA-2024:8112)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 209106

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-2024:8112 advisory.

 * 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)

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 buildah and / or buildah-tests packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-8112.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 209106

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2024-8112.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/16/2024

Updated: 10/16/2024

Supported Sensors: continuous_assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9341

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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:buildah-tests, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:buildah, 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: 10/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-34155, CVE-2024-34156, CVE-2024-34158, CVE-2024-9341

CWE: 1325, 59, 674

IAVB: 2024-B-0132