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AlmaLinux 9 : buildah (ALSA-2025:22011)

high Nessus Plugin ID 276748

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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-2025:22011 advisory.

 * runc: container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects (CVE-2025-52881)
 * golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map (CVE-2025-58183)

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 buildah and / or buildah-tests packages.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-22011.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22011

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 276748

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-22011.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 11/25/2025

Updated: 11/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-52881

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-58183

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Threat Score: 4.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:buildah, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:buildah-tests

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-52881, CVE-2025-58183

CWE: 59, 770

IAVB: 2025-B-0177

RHSA: 2025:22011