The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8263 advisory.

    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution     designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

    This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.18. See the     following advisory for the container images for this release:

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8260

    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)
    * Podman: Buildah: cri-o: FIPS Crypto-Policy Directory Mounting Issue in     containers/common Go Library (CVE-2024-9341)
    * go/parser: golang: Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply     nested literals can cause a panic/stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34155)
    * 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)

    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.

    All OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages and images     when they are available in the appropriate release channel. To check for available updates, use the     OpenShift CLI (oc) or web console. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at     https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.16/updating/updating_a_cluster/updating-cluster-cli.html

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 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.18 (RHSA-2024:8263)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209637

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Version 1.2 Nov 26, 2024, 6:59 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 8.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:N") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 8.2) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2024-9341, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") CVSSv3 severity (based on None, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Plugin Feed: 202411260659
Version 1.1 Oct 25, 2024, 2:35 AM New Plugin Feed: 202410250235