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CentOS 8 : container-tools:rhel8 (CESA-2022:1762)

high Nessus Plugin ID 160967

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2022:1762 advisory.

 - psgo: Privilege escalation in 'podman top' (CVE-2022-1227)

 - prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)

 - podman: Default inheritable capabilities for linux container should be empty (CVE-2022-27649)

 - crun: Default inheritable capabilities for linux container should be empty (CVE-2022-27650)

 - buildah: Default inheritable capabilities for linux container should be empty (CVE-2022-27651)

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 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1762

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 160967

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2022-1762.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2022

Updated: 10/27/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1227

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:conmon, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:crit, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:criu, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:criu-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:criu-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:fuse-overlayfs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libslirp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libslirp-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-criu, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:slirp4netns, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:toolbox, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:toolbox-tests, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:udica

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1227, CVE-2022-21698, CVE-2022-27649, CVE-2022-27650, CVE-2022-27651

RHSA: 2022:1762