RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2024:8679)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 209913

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8679 advisory.

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Security Fix(es):

* buildah: Buildah allows arbitrary directory mount (CVE-2024-9675)

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 podman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:8679.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 209913

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8679.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/30/2024

Updated: 10/30/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.2

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9675

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-catatonit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-gvproxy, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0

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: 10/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9675

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2024:8679

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