The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2758 advisory.

    The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo,     and runc.

    Security Fix(es):

    * golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)

    * golang: go/parser: stack exhaustion in all Parse* functions (CVE-2022-1962)

    * golang: net/http: handle server errors after sending GOAWAY (CVE-2022-27664)

    * golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Skip (CVE-2022-28131)

    * golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30630)

    * golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)

    * golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30632)

    * golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal (CVE-2022-30633)

    * golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode (CVE-2022-30635)

    * golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)

    * golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests (CVE-2022-41717)

    * podman: symlink exchange attack in podman export volume (CVE-2023-0778)

    * golang: crypto/tls: session tickets lack random ticket_age_add (CVE-2022-30629)

    * golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short,     potentially allowing a denial of service (CVE-2022-32189)

    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 8.8 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.

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RHEL 8 : container-tools:rhel8 (RHSA-2023:2758)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 176146

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.4 Nov 8, 2024, 5:19 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080519
Version 1.3 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.2 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202401262100
Version 1.1 May 24, 2023, 8:43 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305242043
Version 1.0 May 20, 2023, 4:02 PM New Plugin Feed: 202305201602