RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2022:7954)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167600

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7954 advisory.

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.

Security Fix(es):

* golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing -u- extension (CVE-2020-28851)

* golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing bcp47 tag (CVE-2020-28852)

* podman: podman machine spawns gvproxy with port bound to all IPs (CVE-2021-4024)

* podman: Remote traffic to rootless containers is seen as orginating from localhost (CVE-2021-20199)

* containers/storage: DoS via malicious image (CVE-2021-20291)

* golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (CVE-2021-33197)

* golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (CVE-2021-34558)

* golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 RHEL podman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:7954.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167600

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7954.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/16/2022

Updated: 3/6/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4024

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman

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: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28851, CVE-2020-28852, CVE-2021-20199, CVE-2021-20291, CVE-2021-33197, CVE-2021-34558, CVE-2021-4024, CVE-2022-27191

CWE: 129, 20, 327, 346, 667

RHSA: 2022:7954

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RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2022:7954)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167600

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CVSS v2

CVSS v3

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Reference Information