RHEL 9 : toolbox (RHSA-2024:9135)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210783

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for toolbox.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9135 advisory.

Toolbox is a tool for Linux operating systems, which allows the use of containerized command line environments. It is built on top of Podman and other standard container technologies from OCI.

Security Fix(es):

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

* golang: html/template: errors returned from MarshalJSON methods may break template escaping (CVE-2024-24785)

* golang: net: malformed DNS message can cause infinite loop (CVE-2024-24788)

* net/http: Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in net/http (CVE-2024-24791)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from 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 toolbox package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9135.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210783

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9135.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/12/2024

Updated: 11/12/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24788

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-24791

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:toolbox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:toolbox-tests, 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: 11/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45290, CVE-2024-24785, CVE-2024-24788, CVE-2024-24791

CWE: 20, 74, 835

RHSA: 2024:9135

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