RHSA-2022:6119 - 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.

Security Fix(es):

• podman: Security regression of CVE-2020-8945 due to source code management issue (CVE-2022-2738)
• podman: Security regression of CVE-2020-14370 due to source code management issue (CVE-2022-2739)

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):

• podman-1.6.4-32 prints a `Error: read unixpacket` when running in interactive mode (BZ#2087994)
• systemd managed container doesn't start serving web traffic despite of starting on system startup. (BZ#2096449)
• Can not Add url with podman build (BZ#2112217)

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 - 2087994 - podman-1.6.4-32 prints a `Error: read unixpacket` when running in interactive mode
• BZ - 2096449 - systemd managed container doesn't start serving web traffic despite of starting on system startup. [rhel-7.9.z]
• BZ - 2112217 - Can not Add url with podman build
• BZ - 2116923 - CVE-2022-2738 podman: Security regression of CVE-2020-8945 due to source code management issue
• BZ - 2116927 - CVE-2022-2739 podman: Security regression of CVE-2020-14370 due to source code management issue

CVEs

• CVE-2022-2738
• CVE-2022-2739

References

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