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RHEL 9 : osbuild and osbuild-composer (RHSA-2025:7118)
high Nessus Plugin ID 235795
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for osbuild / osbuild-composer.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7118 advisory.A service for building customized OS artifacts, such as VM images and OSTree commits, that uses osbuild under the hood. Besides building images for local usage, it can also upload images directly to cloud. It is compatible with composer-cli and cockpit-composer clients.
Security Fix(es):
* golang-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA payloads (CVE-2024-1394)
* go/build/constraint: golang: Calling Parse on a // +build build tag line with deeply nested expressions can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34158)
* golang-fips: Golang FIPS zeroed buffer (CVE-2024-9355)
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 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.
Solution
Update the RHEL osbuild / osbuild-composer packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7118.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262921
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310529
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2315719
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7118
http://www.nessus.org/u?a7e51e86
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-16396
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-4570
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-4617
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-4636
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-56049
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 235795
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7118.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 5/13/2025
Updated: 5/13/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.3
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.7
Temporal Score: 4.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9355
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.6
Threat Score: 5
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-worker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:osbuild-composer-core, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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: 5/13/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2024