RHSA-2023:2802 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the container-tools:4.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)
• golang: go/parser: stack exhaustion in all Parse* functions (CVE-2022-1962)
• golang: net/http: handle server errors after sending GOAWAY (CVE-2022-27664)
• golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Skip (CVE-2022-28131)
• golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30630)
• golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)
• golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30632)
• golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal (CVE-2022-30633)
• golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode (CVE-2022-30635)
• golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)
• golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests (CVE-2022-41717)
• podman: symlink exchange attack in podman export volume (CVE-2023-0778)
• podman: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2989)
• golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service (CVE-2022-32189)

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 8.8 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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2107342 - CVE-2022-30631 golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read
• BZ - 2107371 - CVE-2022-30630 golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob
• BZ - 2107374 - CVE-2022-1705 golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header
• BZ - 2107376 - CVE-2022-1962 golang: go/parser: stack exhaustion in all Parse* functions
• BZ - 2107383 - CVE-2022-32148 golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working
• BZ - 2107386 - CVE-2022-30632 golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob
• BZ - 2107388 - CVE-2022-30635 golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode
• BZ - 2107390 - CVE-2022-28131 golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Skip
• BZ - 2107392 - CVE-2022-30633 golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal
• BZ - 2113814 - CVE-2022-32189 golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service
• BZ - 2115089 - Update container-tools:4.0/toolbox to 0.0.99.3
• BZ - 2121445 - CVE-2022-2989 podman: possible information disclosure and modification
• BZ - 2124669 - CVE-2022-27664 golang: net/http: handle server errors after sending GOAWAY
• BZ - 2129766 - ADD Dockerfile reference is not validating HTTP status code [4.0]
• BZ - 2152907 - [container-tools:4.0/toolbox] toolbox list contains duplicate entries for images with multiple names
• BZ - 2161274 - CVE-2022-41717 golang: net/http: excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests
• BZ - 2165610 - [container-tools:4.0/toolbox] Support RHEL 9 Toolbx containers
• BZ - 2165790 - file /usr/share/man/man5/Containerfile.5.gz conflicts between attempted installs of buildah-1:1.24.6-4.module+el8.8.0+17821+de1b53f1.x86_64 and containers-common-2:1-37.module+el8.8.0+17954+9046de88.x86_64
• BZ - 2166906 - container-tools fails to build with bcc in RHEL8.8
• BZ - 2168256 - CVE-2023-0778 podman: symlink exchange attack in podman export volume

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1705
• CVE-2022-1962
• CVE-2022-2989
• CVE-2022-27664
• CVE-2022-28131
• CVE-2022-30630
• CVE-2022-30631
• CVE-2022-30632
• CVE-2022-30633
• CVE-2022-30635
• CVE-2022-32148
• CVE-2022-32189
• CVE-2022-41717
• CVE-2023-0778

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index