RockyLinux 10 : podman (RLSA-2026:70201)

high Nessus Plugin ID 349523

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote RockyLinux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:70201 advisory.

* podman: Go crypto/x509: Certificate validation bypass due to incorrect DNS constraint application (CVE-2026-33810)

* podman: Go net/http: Unencrypted HTTP/2 connections vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2026-56853)

* podman: Go encoding/asn1: Denial of Service via excessive recursion in Unmarshal (CVE-2026-33818)

* podman: golang net/url: Denial of Service from quadratic complexity in path resolution (CVE-2026-56860)

* podman: Go: Denial of Service via XML decoding recursion depth issue (CVE-2026-56859)

* podman: Go html/template: Cross-Site Scripting via pathological input (CVE-2026-56858)

* podman: Golang crypto/tls: Denial of Service via indefinite KeyUpdate messages (CVE-2026-56862)

* podman: golang.org/x/text: Denial of Service via invalid UTF-8 input (CVE-2026-56852)

* podman: net/mail: Denial of Service via pathological email address parsing (CVE-2026-42499)

* podman: Quadlet install --replace non-truncating write retains removed host-access directives (CVE-2026-19730)

* podman: moby/go-archive: Arbitrary file write via link following in tar extraction (CVE-2026-17106)

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2456335

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467809

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2504233

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2508234

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515815

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515820

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515827

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515838

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515839

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515840

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2518147

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:70201

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 349523

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-70201.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Published: 9/23/2026

Updated: 9/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.54

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33810

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 6.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-17106

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:10, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:podman-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:podman-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:podman-docker, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:podman-remote-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:podman-remote, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:podman-tests-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:podman-tests, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:podman

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: 9/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-17106, CVE-2026-19730, CVE-2026-33810, CVE-2026-33818, CVE-2026-42499, CVE-2026-56852, CVE-2026-56853, CVE-2026-56858, CVE-2026-56859, CVE-2026-56860, CVE-2026-56862

IAVA: 2026-A-1049

IAVB: 2026-B-0089-S, 2026-B-0120, 2026-B-0193-S, 2026-B-0234