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Amazon Linux 2 : cri-tools (ALAS-2026-4042)

🗓️ 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Multiple vulnerabilities in cri-tools allow DoS via memory exhaustion or CPU usage.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2026-4042.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(371800);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/10/24");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2026-78659",
    "CVE-2026-78667",
    "CVE-2026-94440",
    "CVE-2026-111943"
  );
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2026-B-0296-S");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2026-B-0304");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : cri-tools (ALAS-2026-4042)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of cri-tools installed on the remote host is prior to 1.32.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2026-4042 advisory.

    Due to security concerns regarding a small set of intermediate certificates issued by a specific
    Certificate Authority (CA), the Go's crypto/x509 package is updated to not trust certificates issued by
    the affected intermediate certificates. This would prevent possible future misuse of certificate issued by
    the affected intermediate certificates. (CVE-2026-111943)

    When Trailer headers are sent by a client, the HTTP server internally uses the header values to populate
    the Request.Trailer map passed to the server handler. Because Request.Trailer is a map, each entry incurs
    memory overhead. For HTTP/2 servers, a malicious client can exploit this by sending a Trailer header
    that declares a large number of fields causing the server to allocate a disproportionate amount of memory
    while bypassing Server.MaxHeaderValueCount and Server.MaxHeaderBytes limits.This exploit is not applicable
    for HTTP/1 servers, which do not support  multiplexing a large number of requests over one TCP connection,
    and whose Server.MaxHeaderBytes are calculated differently.Server.MaxHeaderValueCount and
    Server.MaxHeaderBytes limits are now applied towards the trailer fields declared in Trailer headers.

    NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/08/9NOTE:
    https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81857NOTE: Fixed by:
    https://github.com/golang/go/commit/cbb0fb8b51cba866018b8a0fb4b5458f16c5c80b (go1.27.2)NOTE: Fixed by:
    https://github.com/golang/go/commit/6e049521882c944afc1e519a83971ec421dc2974 (go1.26.9) (CVE-2026-78659)

    When parsing a Range header containing a large number of small ranges, FileServer(FS), ServeContent, and
    ServeFile(FS) could consume an excessive amount of CPU.

    These functions now ignore Range headers containing more than 200 ranges.The limit is controlled by the
    new httpservecontentmaxranges=GODEBUG setting. Setting GODEBUG=httpservecontentmaxranges=0 disables the
    limit.

    NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/08/9NOTE:
    https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81858NOTE: Fixed by:
    https://github.com/golang/go/commit/ababc3cd873d8acce1777268aa7a817e6b672028 (go1.27.2)NOTE: Fixed by:
    https://github.com/golang/go/commit/eb25b4e532c5a01f99ef860ec66743a8783f992b (go1.26.9) (CVE-2026-78667)

    Parsing a multipart form could bypass memory limits and read an arbitrarily long line into memory when the
    remaining limit at the start of a part was less than 400 bytes. Multipart form memory limits are now
    properly enforced in this situation.

    NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/08/9NOTE:
    https://github.com/golang/go/issues/81741NOTE: Fixed by:
    https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7c79b50a74b6d1aa4269b1827dda7d81f3717f9d (go1.27.2)NOTE: Fixed by:
    https://github.com/golang/go/commit/d7a7aa8e6781ddf8dce12adf60a813d957d4763e (go1.26.9) (CVE-2026-94440)

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.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2026-4042.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-111943.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-78659.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-78667.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-94440.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update cri-tools' or
  or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2026-4042' to update your system.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2026-111943");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2026-94440");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2026/10/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2026/10/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2026/10/24");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cri-tools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cri-tools-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2026 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info2.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}

include("rpm2.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'cri-tools-1.32.0-1.amzn2.0.8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'cri-tools-1.32.0-1.amzn2.0.8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'cri-tools-debuginfo-1.32.0-1.amzn2.0.8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'cri-tools-debuginfo-1.32.0-1.amzn2.0.8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  var cves = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "cri-tools / cri-tools-debuginfo");
}

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24 Oct 2026 00:00Current
6.1Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.1
CVSS 3.17.5
EPSS0.00627
SSVC
4