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RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.3 (RHSA-2024:8437)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 209904

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8437 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 4.17.3. See the following advisory for the container images for this release:

 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8434

 Security Fix(es):

 * Podman: Buildah: CRI-O: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Denial of Service (DoS) (CVE-2024-9676)

 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 4.17 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/4.17/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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:8437.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317467

http://www.nessus.org/u?d3bd2c68

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8437

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 209904

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8437.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2024

Updated: 10/30/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9676

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cri-o, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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: 10/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9676

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2024:8437