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Oracle Linux 9 : podman (ELSA-2025-0922)

high Nessus Plugin ID 214966

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-0922 advisory.

 [5.2.2-13.0.1]
 - podman: do not set rlimits to the default value [Orabug: 37310981]
 - Add devices on container startup, not on creation
 - overlay: Put should ignore ENINVAL for Unmount [Orabug: 36234694]
 - Drop nmap-ncat requirement and skip ignore-socket test case [Orabug: 34117404]

 [4:5.2.2-13]
 - update to the latest content of https://github.com/containers/podman/tree/v5.2-rhel (https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/173b20b)
 - Resolves: RHEL-67606

 [4:5.2.2-12]
 - update to the latest content of https://github.com/containers/podman/tree/v5.2-rhel (https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/76d1690)
 - Resolves: RHEL-73592

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-0922.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 214966

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-0922.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2025

Updated: 2/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-11218

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-plugins, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11218