The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6938 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * go-yaml: Improve heuristics preventing CPU/memory abuse by parsing malicious or large YAML documents     (CVE-2022-3064)

    * golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace (CVE-2023-24540)

    * net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding (CVE-2022-41723)

    * golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics (CVE-2022-41724)

    * golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2022-41725)

    * golang.org/x/net/html: Cross site scripting (CVE-2023-3978)

    * golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation (CVE-2023-24534)

    * golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption     (CVE-2023-24536)

    * golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing (CVE-2023-24537)

    * golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters (CVE-2023-24538)

    * golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values (CVE-2023-24539)

    * runc: Rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable (CVE-2023-25809)

    * runc: volume mount race condition (regression of CVE-2019-19921) (CVE-2023-27561)

    * runc: AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount     configuration (CVE-2023-28642)

    * golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes (CVE-2023-29400)

    * golang: net/http: insufficient sanitization of Host header (CVE-2023-29406)

    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 8.9 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:4.0 (RHSA-2023:6938)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 185685

Version 1.4

Version 1.1

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Version 1.4 Jul 3, 2025, 7:10 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to none) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to none) CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2023-3978, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202507030710
Version 1.1 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.0 Nov 15, 2023, 4:54 AM New Plugin Feed: 202311150454