CVE-2020-1702

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-1702
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-27 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-10 15:16:00 UTC
DescriptionA malicious container image can consume an unbounded amount of memory when being pulled to a container runtime host, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux using podman, or OpenShift Container Platform. An attacker can use this flaw to trick a user, with privileges to pull container images, into crashing the process responsible for pulling the image. This flaw affects containers-image versions before 5.2.0.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Containers-image Project Containers-image All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

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1792796 – (CVE-2020-1702) CVE-2020-1702 containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159667 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for container-tools:ol8 (ELSA-2020-1650)
  • 377377 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0013)
  • 770025 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.3 Security Update (RHSA-2020:1937)
  • 940531 AlmaLinux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (ALSA-2020:1650)
  • 960829 Rocky Linux Security Update for container-tools:rhel8 (RLSA-2020:1650)
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