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Oracle Linux 8 : container-tools:1.0 (ELSA-2019-4273) (Ping Flood) (Reset Flood)

high Nessus Plugin ID 132668

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2019:4273 :

An update for the container-tools:1.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc.

Security Fix(es) :

* HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)

* HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9514)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-4273.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 132668

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-4273.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2020

Updated: 9/7/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS Score Rationale: Score based on analysis of the vendor notes.

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: manual

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:buildah, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:container-selinux, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:containernetworking-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:containers-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:fuse-overlayfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oci-systemd-hook, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oci-umount, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:runc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:slirp4netns, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514

RHSA: 2019:4273