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.

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

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210509

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Version 1.2 Mar 6, 2025, 10:02 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202503062202
Version 1.1 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM New Plugin Feed: 202411072025