RHSA-2024:9135 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for toolbox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Toolbox is a tool for Linux operating systems, which allows the use of containerized command line environments. It is built on top of Podman and other standard container technologies from OCI.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http: golang: mime/multipart: golang: net/textproto: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm (CVE-2023-45290)
• golang: html/template: errors returned from MarshalJSON methods may break template escaping (CVE-2024-24785)
• golang: net: malformed DNS message can cause infinite loop (CVE-2024-24788)
• net/http: Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in net/http (CVE-2024-24791)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2268017 - CVE-2023-45290 golang: net/http: golang: mime/multipart: golang: net/textproto: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm
• BZ - 2268022 - CVE-2024-24785 golang: html/template: errors returned from MarshalJSON methods may break template escaping
• BZ - 2279814 - CVE-2024-24788 golang: net: malformed DNS message can cause infinite loop
• BZ - 2295310 - CVE-2024-24791 net/http: Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in net/http

CVEs

• CVE-2023-45290
• CVE-2024-24785
• CVE-2024-24788
• CVE-2024-24791

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.5_release_notes/index