RHEL 9 : buildah (RHSA-2022:8008)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167618

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8008 advisory.

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

- golang: net: lookup functions may return invalid host names (CVE-2021-33195)

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

- golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large exponents (CVE-2021-33198)

- podman: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2989)

- buildah: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2990)

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

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 buildah package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:8008.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167618

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8008.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/16/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33195

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/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:buildah, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:buildah-tests

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: 4/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20291, CVE-2021-33195, CVE-2021-33197, CVE-2021-33198, CVE-2022-27191, CVE-2022-2989, CVE-2022-2990

CWE: 20, 327, 400, 667, 842

RHSA: 2022:8008

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