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AlmaLinux 9 : podman (ALSA-2024:9051)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210740

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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-2024:9051 advisory.

 * Buildah: Podman: Improper Input Validation in bind-propagation Option of Dockerfile RUN --mount Instruction (CVE-2024-9407)
 * buildah: Buildah allows arbitrary directory mount (CVE-2024-9675)
 * Podman: Buildah: CRI-O: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Denial of Service (DoS) (CVE-2024-9676)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux security advisory.

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-2024-9051.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9051

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210740

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2024-9051.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 11/11/2024

Updated: 8/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9676

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9675

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:podman-docker, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, 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: 11/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9407, CVE-2024-9675, CVE-2024-9676

CWE: 20, 22

RHSA: 2024:9051