RockyLinux 8 : container-tools:4.0 (RLSA-2023:2802)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277186

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:2802 advisory.

* golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)

* golang: go/parser: stack exhaustion in all Parse* functions (CVE-2022-1962)

* golang: net/http: handle server errors after sending GOAWAY (CVE-2022-27664)

* golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Skip (CVE-2022-28131)

* golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30630)

* golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)

* golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30632)

* golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal (CVE-2022-30633)

* golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode (CVE-2022-30635)

* golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)

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

* podman: symlink exchange attack in podman export volume (CVE-2023-0778)

* podman: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2989)

* golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service (CVE-2022-32189)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:2802

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107342

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107371

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107374

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107376

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107383

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107386

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107388

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107390

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2107392

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2113814

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121445

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124669

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168256

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277186

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2023-2802.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 12/3/2025

Updated: 12/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0778

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2989

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:criu-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:criu, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-criu, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libslirp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:oci-seccomp-bpf-hook-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libslirp, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:cockpit-podman, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:criu-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libslirp-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:criu-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:criu-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libslirp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:criu-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:oci-seccomp-bpf-hook, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:crit, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:oci-seccomp-bpf-hook-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1705, CVE-2022-1962, CVE-2022-27664, CVE-2022-28131, CVE-2022-2989, CVE-2022-30630, CVE-2022-30631, CVE-2022-30632, CVE-2022-30633, CVE-2022-30635, CVE-2022-32148, CVE-2022-32189, CVE-2022-41717, CVE-2023-0778

IAVB: 2022-B-0025, 2022-B-0059-S, 2023-B-0080-S