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RHEL 9 : podman (RHSA-2024:9051)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210749

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9051 advisory.

 The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

 Security Fix(es):

 * 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)

 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.

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL podman package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9051.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2315887

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317458

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2317467

http://www.nessus.org/u?a60f947e

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210749

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9051.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2024

Updated: 3/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:podman

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: 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