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RHEL 7 : podman (RHSA-2018:2037)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110715

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
podman (0.6.1). (BZ#1584429)

Security Fix(es) :

* podman: Containers run as non-root users do not drop capabilities (CVE-2018-10856)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected podman and / or podman-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2037

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10856

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110715

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2037.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/27/2018

Updated: 10/24/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10856

RHSA: 2018:2037