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AlmaLinux 9 : podman (ALSA-2022:8431)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167843

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2022:8431 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)

 - An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah 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-2022-2990)

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://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-8431.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167843

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2022-8431.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 11/18/2022

Updated: 11/24/2022

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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: 6.2

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-catatonit, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-plugins, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-tests

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2989, CVE-2022-2990

CWE: 842