RockyLinux 9 : podman (RLSA-2026:97533)

high Nessus Plugin ID 380051

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2026:97533 advisory.

* golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via crafted AES-GCM packet decoder inputs (CVE-2026-46597)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* When using `--mount` in `podman run` results can be inconsistent, especially on /var/tmp (JIRA:Rocky Linux-154348)

* [RFE] SELinux confined users unable to start podman.socket systemd user service (JIRA:Rocky Linux-132875)

* [RFE] Mounting of NFS Quadlet volume fails with permission denied (JIRA:Rocky Linux-145863)

* [RFE] podman API socket to support TLS/mTLS (JIRA:Rocky Linux-91221)

* Rebase podman to the latest upstream release [rhel-9.9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-168737)

* podman does not clean up all files and leaves orphaned files consuming disk space [rhel-9.9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173976)

* [FJ9.8 Bug]: [REG]The podman-remote save command fails for rootless users. (JIRA:Rocky Linux-186006)

* podman: rebase to 5.8.5 (JIRA:Rocky Linux-212537)

* [FJ9.9 Bug]: [REG]The podman rm command can accidentally delete containers even though it is mounted by Buildah when used by a rootless user in remote. (JIRA:Rocky Linux-211092)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 380051

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-97533.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/13/2026

Updated: 11/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-46597

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, 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-plugins-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:podman-plugins, 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/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-46597

IAVB: 2026-B-0120

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