RHSA-2019:1907 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: podman (1.4.4). (BZ#1717919)

Security Fix(es):

• podman: Improper symlink resolution allows access to host files when executing `podman cp` on running containers (CVE-2019-10152)

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 Fix(es):

• Error: pod was given but no pod is specified: invalid argument (BZ#1727873)
• Podman stats failed with Error: unable to obtain cgroup stats (BZ#1728242)

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 Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1715667 - CVE-2019-10152 podman: Improper symlink resolution allows access to host files when executing `podman cp` on running containers
• BZ - 1717919 - rebase to v1.4.4
• BZ - 1727873 - Error: pod was given but no pod is specified: invalid argument
• BZ - 1728242 - Podman stats failed with Error: unable to obtain cgroup stats

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10152

References

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