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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1230 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-03-31
Updated:
2020-03-31

RHSA-2020:1230 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Moderate: skopeo security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for skopeo 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 skopeo command lets you inspect images from container image registries, get images and image layers, and use signatures to create and verify files.

Security Fix(es):

  • proglottis/gpgme: Use-after-free in GPGME bindings during container image pull (CVE-2020-8945)

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):

  • Skopeo doesn't handle HTTP 429 errors properly (BZ#1752775)
  • skopeo does not show manifest manifest.list.v2 for special cases (BZ#1754905)
  • skopeo inspect results in panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference (BZ#1769575)
  • skopeo should be linked against gpgme-pthread (BZ#1793080)
  • docker won't start because registries service won't start (BZ#1812505)

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 Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1752775 - Skopeo doesn't handle HTTP 429 errors properly
  • BZ - 1754905 - skopeo does not show manifest manifest.list.v2 for special cases
  • BZ - 1795838 - CVE-2020-8945 proglottis/gpgme: Use-after-free in GPGME bindings during container image pull
  • BZ - 1812505 - docker won't start because registries service won't start

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-8945

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
skopeo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 3139f878f00405785dcea8be6344df39f44e829e521c5836f688708cb2466200
x86_64
containers-common-0.1.40-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: dc22dbdcc7f721a2944f015835d7268f9f1d6993336a144e66315bb246f88e6b
skopeo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7401edbc59c17ea16d6ff95096c6236ff66d4148167c0518b54ad8c2b78769d2
skopeo-debuginfo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d2021a49ac4842978684ffca7d17cb473f2367c10c5b4f4f1d42a89e53447eaf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
skopeo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 3139f878f00405785dcea8be6344df39f44e829e521c5836f688708cb2466200
x86_64
containers-common-0.1.40-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: dc22dbdcc7f721a2944f015835d7268f9f1d6993336a144e66315bb246f88e6b
skopeo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7401edbc59c17ea16d6ff95096c6236ff66d4148167c0518b54ad8c2b78769d2
skopeo-debuginfo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d2021a49ac4842978684ffca7d17cb473f2367c10c5b4f4f1d42a89e53447eaf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM
skopeo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 3139f878f00405785dcea8be6344df39f44e829e521c5836f688708cb2466200
s390x
containers-common-0.1.40-7.el7_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: a6c277a19dccdd0104ebd1dbdb16ac7136440fec5d9053407d199164a87476f3
skopeo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: e2cdb90a60642e2da14d19cbe7983aa91c25047d96179b55d279e1192d85d827
skopeo-debuginfo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 922a9d4a6ddba904c3d8e884c712943bc65ed42e797d8b3133a70e50708c8a2e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
skopeo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 3139f878f00405785dcea8be6344df39f44e829e521c5836f688708cb2466200
ppc64le
containers-common-0.1.40-7.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 61cb2779e5d31b0b225ac8358cb83c14e75d74eb921e3464d7b9d3b6f4062eb4
skopeo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d986e92d099f6327120421b107d143786712bf5438eb36863836c6d1e607ef6b
skopeo-debuginfo-0.1.40-7.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 14482d5dfe7d02e256da2e8e70ba657f4b3ba5816cc0ee82f17c78fcb7c09a75

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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