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RHEL 8 : container-tools:rhel8 (RHSA-2024:10289)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211846

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-2024:10289 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large exponents (CVE-2021-33198)

 * podman: podman machine spawns gvproxy with port bound to all IPs (CVE-2021-4024)

 * 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 container-tools:rhel8 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:10289.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1989575

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2026675

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317467

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10289

http://www.nessus.org/u?39c603f8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211846

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-10289.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/26/2024

Updated: 11/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4024

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33198, CVE-2021-4024, CVE-2024-9676

CWE: 22, 346, 400

RHSA: 2024:10289