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Amazon Linux 2023 : buildah (ALAS2023-2026-3451)
high Nessus Plugin ID 379846
Synopsis
The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.Description
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2026-3451 advisory.Go JOSE provides an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards in Go, including support for JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Signature (JWS), and JSON Web Token (JWT) standards. Prior to 4.1.5, decrypting untrusted JWE ciphertext with A128CBC-HS256, A192CBC-HS384, or A256CBC-HS512 can pass an empty ciphertext buffer to CBC-HMAC unpadding. Insufficient validation allows the empty buffer to be indexed, causing a panic and denial of service. Applications that decrypt attacker- controlled ciphertext with one of these content-encryption algorithms are affected. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.5. (CVE-2026-116585)
Go JOSE provides an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards in Go, including support for JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Signature (JWS), and JSON Web Token (JWT) standards. Prior to 4.1.5, parsing attacker-controlled JSON through go-jose allows deeply nested arrays or objects to exceed Go's stack limit. The resulting stack overflow crashes the application and permits denial of service in applications that parse untrusted JSON through go-jose. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.5. (CVE-2026-116586)
Go JOSE provides an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards in Go, including support for JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Signature (JWS), and JSON Web Token (JWT) standards. Prior to 4.1.6, go-jose parses attacker-controlled RSA modulus and prime values from JWKs without enforcing size and consistency bounds before passing them to crypto/rsa.PrivateKey.Validate. On Go 1.24 and later, crafted large or degenerate RSA parameters can make that validation consume cubic CPU time, allowing remote denial of service in applications that parse JWKs from untrusted sources. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.6. (CVE-2026-116587)
compress provides various compression algorithms. Prior to 1.20.2, the zstd DecodeAll and streaming decoder paths can panic when a crafted two-block frame reaches huff0.ReadTable with an FSE normalized count of 32768 that readNCount stores in int16 as -32768. The wrapped count allows buildDtable to retain stale fse.Scratch decode-table state from the prior block, and nextFast then derives an out-of-range state and indexes beyond the table instead of returning a decode error. Both blocks are required to preserve and then reuse the stale state, allowing untrusted zstd input to crash an application. This issue is fixed in version 1.20.2. (CVE-2026-116591)
The `github.com/moby/sys/user` package provides Go utilities for parsing and looking up entries in Unix- style user and group database files. Versions before 0.4.1 do not sufficiently limit entries when parsing `/etc/passwd`- or `/etc/group`-style files, allowing an attacker who can supply a specially crafted file to cause excessive memory consumption and potentially terminate the affected process due to an out-of- memory condition. This issue is patched in version 0.4.1. As a workaround, avoid parsing attacker- controlled user or group database files, or validate and limit untrusted input before parsing it.
(CVE-2026-61801)
eStargz layer decoder in the estartgz package contains a vulnerability that an input containing a cyclic hardlink crashes the process with Go's unrecoverable stack overflow error. Stargz Snapshotter with the default configuration relies on that function so pulling an eStargz image containing a muliciously crafted layer with a cyclic hardlink crashes the Stargz Snapshotter process. (CVE-2026-71482)
When coalescing adjacent text nodes in addText and fosterParent, appending to an existing TextNode's Data via string concatenation (n.Data += text) reallocated and copied the accumulated string on every token.
Inputs containing many short text runs separated by ignored end tags (such as a</x>) caused O(n^2) allocations and byte copies. Accumulate coalesced text in per-node byte slices during parsing and materialize Data strings once at the end of parse. (CVE-2026-78661)
A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious whiteout header (e.g. victim/.wh.) can cause the extraction destination directory to be replaced with an arbitrary file when processed by storage/pkg/archive.UnpackLayer, ApplyLayer, or ApplyUncompressedLayer.
(CVE-2026-79699)
In childTextNodesAreLiteral, walking up the tree previously stopped at the nearest foreign ancestor once an HTML integration point was found. However, that integration point may itself be a descendant of an element that was foster-parented into a foreign namespace (such as <mglyph> or <malignmark> fostered under <mtext>), causing a parser to resolve the subtree in a different foreign namespace upon re-parsing the rendered output. Continue walking the full ancestor chain and verify that every transition from a non- empty namespace occurs at an HTML integration point before emitting literal text. (CVE-2026-97045)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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
Run 'dnf update buildah --releasever 2023.12.20261112' or or 'dnf update --advisory ALAS2023-2026-3451 --releasever 2023.12.20261112' to update your system.See Also
https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2023/ALAS2023-2026-3451.html
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html
https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-116585.html
https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-116586.html
https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-116587.html
https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-116591.html
https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-61801.html
https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-71482.html
https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-78661.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 379846
File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2026-3451.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Published: 11/12/2026
Updated: 11/12/2026
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3
Percentile: 23.81
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 5.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-78661
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.7
Threat Score: 6.6
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-116591
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:buildah-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:buildah-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:buildah
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2026
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2026-116585, CVE-2026-116586, CVE-2026-116587, CVE-2026-116591, CVE-2026-61801, CVE-2026-71482, CVE-2026-78661, CVE-2026-79699, CVE-2026-97045