RHEL 8 : container-tools:rhel8 (RHSA-2024:5258)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210509

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for container-tools:rhel8.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5258 advisory.

The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc.

Security Fix(es):

* golang-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA payloads (CVE-2024-1394)

* golang: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm (CVE-2023-45290)

* golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm (CVE-2024-24783)

* golang: net/mail: comments in display names are incorrectly handled (CVE-2024-24784)

* containers/image: digest type does not guarantee valid type (CVE-2024-3727)

* golang: archive/zip: Incorrect handling of certain ZIP files (CVE-2024-24789)

* go-retryablehttp: url might write sensitive information to log file (CVE-2024-6104)

* gorilla/schema: Potential memory exhaustion attack due to sparse slice deserialization (CVE-2024-37298)

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL container-tools:rhel8 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:5258.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210509

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-5258.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6104

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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:buildah, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:container-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:containernetworking-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:containers-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse-overlayfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:runc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:slirp4netns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cockpit-podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:conmon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:crit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:criu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-criu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:skopeo-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:toolbox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:udica, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libslirp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libslirp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:crun, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-catatonit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:toolbox-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:criu-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:criu-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aardvark-dns, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netavark, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-podman, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10

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: 8/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45290, CVE-2024-1394, CVE-2024-24783, CVE-2024-24784, CVE-2024-24789, CVE-2024-3727, CVE-2024-37298, CVE-2024-6104

CWE: 115, 20, 354, 400, 401, 532, 770

RHSA: 2024:5258

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