SB2024032833 - Multiple vulnerabilities in buildah

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.

1) Improper Privilege Management (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-1753)

CWE-ID: CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges.

The vulnerability exists due to the affected application allows containers to mount arbitrary locations on the host filesystem into build containers. A remote attacker can escalate privileges.

2) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24786)

CWE-ID: CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CVSSv4: 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/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when parsing data in an invalid JSON format within the protojson.Unmarshal() function. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.

3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39325)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

CVSSv4: 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/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to excessive consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can bypass the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting by creating new connections while the current connections are still being processed, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/containers/buildah/releases/tag/v1.32.3
• https://github.com/containers/buildah/releases/tag/v1.29.3
• https://github.com/containers/buildah/releases/tag/v1.27.4