RHEL 8 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2023:4470)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194222

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4470 advisory.

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

- 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: 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)

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

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

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 openshift-clients package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161274

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178488

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178492

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184481

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184482

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184483

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184484

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196026

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196027

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196029

http://www.nessus.org/u?5b44adad

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4470

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194222

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4470.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24540

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-clients, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41717, CVE-2022-41724, CVE-2022-41725, CVE-2023-24534, CVE-2023-24536, CVE-2023-24537, CVE-2023-24538, CVE-2023-24539, CVE-2023-24540, CVE-2023-29400

CWE: 176, 400, 770, 835, 94

RHSA: 2023:4470