Issued:

2024-04-30

Updated:

2024-04-30

RHSA-2024:2548 - Moderate: podman security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: podman security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for podman 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

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 Fixes:

• podman: golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)

• podman: buildah: full container escape at build time (CVE-2024-1753)

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.

Bug Fixes:

• liveness probe not called by podman when using httpGet (JIRA:RHEL-28633)

• Unable to copy image from one virtual machine to another using "podman image scp" (JIRA:RHEL-28629)

• [v4.9] Backport two docker CLI compatibility fixes (JIRA:RHEL-28636)

• Issue in podman causing S2I to fail in overwriting ENTRYPOINT (JIRA:RHEL-14922)

• Need to backport podman fix for SIGSEGV in RHEL 9.3/8.9 for UBI based containers (JIRA:RHEL-26843)

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

Updated Packages

• podman-remote-4.9.4-3.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
• podman-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.s390x.rpm
• podman-remote-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
• podman-remote-4.9.4-3.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
• podman-remote-4.9.4-3.el9_4.s390x.rpm
• podman-plugins-4.9.4-3.el9_4.s390x.rpm
• podman-remote-4.9.4-3.el9_4.ppc64le.rpm
• podman-4.9.4-3.el9_4.src.rpm
• podman-tests-4.9.4-3.el9_4.ppc64le.rpm
• podman-plugins-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.s390x.rpm
• podman-tests-4.9.4-3.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
• podman-docker-4.9.4-3.el9_4.noarch.rpm
• podman-plugins-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
• podman-remote-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.ppc64le.rpm
• podman-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
• podman-4.9.4-3.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
• podman-tests-4.9.4-3.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
• podman-4.9.4-3.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
• podman-debugsource-4.9.4-3.el9_4.s390x.rpm
• podman-4.9.4-3.el9_4.ppc64le.rpm
• podman-debugsource-4.9.4-3.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
• podman-remote-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.aarch64.rpm
• podman-plugins-4.9.4-3.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
• podman-plugins-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
• podman-debugsource-4.9.4-3.el9_4.ppc64le.rpm
• podman-debugsource-4.9.4-3.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
• podman-remote-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.s390x.rpm
• podman-plugins-4.9.4-3.el9_4.ppc64le.rpm
• podman-tests-4.9.4-3.el9_4.s390x.rpm
• podman-plugins-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.ppc64le.rpm
• podman-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.ppc64le.rpm
• podman-4.9.4-3.el9_4.s390x.rpm
• podman-debuginfo-4.9.4-3.el9_4.x86_64.rpm
• podman-plugins-4.9.4-3.el9_4.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.RHEL-28629
• This content is not included.RHEL-28636
• This content is not included.RHEL-14922
• This content is not included.RHEL-30886

CVEs

• CVE-2024-1753
• CVE-2024-24786

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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