QID 240876

Date Published: 2022-11-16

QID 240876: Red Hat Update for podman (RHSA-2022:7954)

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers.
It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods.
Container pods is a concept in kubernetes...Security Fix(es):

    golang.org/x/text: panic in language.
    Parseacceptlanguage while parsing -u- extension (cve-2020-28851).
    Golang.org/x/text: panic in language.
    Parseacceptlanguage while processing bcp47 tag (cve-2020-28852).
    Podman: podman machine spawns gvproxy with port bound to all ips (cve-2021-4024).
    Podman: remote traffic to rootless containers is seen as orginating from localhost (cve-2021-20199).
    Containers/storage: dos via malicious image (cve-2021-20291).
    Golang: net/http/httputil: reverseproxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (cve-2021-33197).
    Golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing tls client to panic (cve-2021-34558).
    Golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (cve-2022-27191).
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.
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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.4 severity.
  • Solution
    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2022:7954 for updates and patch information.
    Vendor References
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2022:7954 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7954