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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : podman (SUSE-SU-2022:3820-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166759

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3820-1 advisory.

 - An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Podman container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container. (CVE-2022-2989)

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 podman, podman-cni-config, podman-docker and / or podman-remote packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202809

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2989

http://www.nessus.org/u?7abdc426

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166759

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3820-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/1/2022

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2989

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:podman-cni-config, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:podman-remote, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2989

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3820-1