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RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2024:9454)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 210824
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for podman.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9454 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):
* go/parser: golang: Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply nested literals can cause a panic/stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34155)
* encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34156)
* go/build/constraint: golang: Calling Parse on a // +build build tag line with deeply nested expressions can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34158)
* Podman: Buildah: cri-o: FIPS Crypto-Policy Directory Mounting Issue in containers/common Go Library (CVE-2024-9341)
* Buildah: Podman: Improper Input Validation in bind-propagation Option of Dockerfile RUN --mount Instruction (CVE-2024-9407)
* buildah: Buildah allows arbitrary directory mount (CVE-2024-9675)
* 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.
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 podman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9454.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310527
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310528
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310529
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2315691
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2315887
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317458
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317467
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-60263
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-61249
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 210824
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9454.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/12/2024
Updated: 11/12/2024
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: 5.7
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.6
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9341
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.4
Temporal Score: 4.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman
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: 9/6/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-34155, CVE-2024-34156, CVE-2024-34158, CVE-2024-9341, CVE-2024-9407, CVE-2024-9675, CVE-2024-9676