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Oracle Linux 8 : podman (ELSA-2024-12191)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191503

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-12191 advisory.

 - A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small. (CVE-2023-39326)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-12191.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191503

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-12191.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2024

Updated: 3/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-39326

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:aardvark-dns, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:buildah, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:buildah-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cockpit-podman, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:conmon, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:container-selinux, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:containernetworking-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:containers-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:crit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:criu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:criu-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:criu-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:crun, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:fuse-overlayfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libslirp, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libslirp-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netavark, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-catatonit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-gvproxy, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-criu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-podman, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:runc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:skopeo, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:skopeo-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:slirp4netns, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:udica

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-39326

IAVB: 2023-B-0096-S