RHSA-2022:8008 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for buildah 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 buildah package provides a tool for facilitating building OCI container images. Among other things, buildah enables you to: Create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting point; Create an image, either from a working container or using the instructions in a Dockerfile; Build both Docker and OCI images.

Security Fix(es):

• containers/storage: DoS via malicious image (CVE-2021-20291)
• golang: net: lookup functions may return invalid host names (CVE-2021-33195)
• golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (CVE-2021-33197)
• golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large exponents (CVE-2021-33198)
• golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)
• podman: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2989)
• buildah: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2990)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1939485 - CVE-2021-20291 containers/storage: DoS via malicious image
• BZ - 1989564 - CVE-2021-33195 golang: net: lookup functions may return invalid host names
• BZ - 1989570 - CVE-2021-33197 golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty
• BZ - 1989575 - CVE-2021-33198 golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large exponents
• BZ - 2064702 - CVE-2022-27191 golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server
• BZ - 2081835 - networking is broken when building containers due to missing container networking package dependencies
• BZ - 2121445 - CVE-2022-2989 podman: possible information disclosure and modification
• BZ - 2121453 - CVE-2022-2990 buildah: possible information disclosure and modification

CVEs

• CVE-2021-20291
• CVE-2021-33195
• CVE-2021-33197
• CVE-2021-33198
• CVE-2022-2989
• CVE-2022-2990
• CVE-2022-27191

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index