RHEL 7 : podman (RHSA-2020:1227)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135081

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1227 advisory.

- podman: resolving symlink in host filesystem leads to unexpected results of copy operation (CVE-2019-18466)

- containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory (CVE-2020-1702)

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 affected podman and / or podman-docker packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1227

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18466

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1702

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1792796

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1744588

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135081

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1227.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2020

Updated: 3/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18466

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 4/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18466, CVE-2020-1702

CWE: 400, 59

RHSA: 2020:1227