RHSA-2024:2988 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 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):

• urllib3: urllib3 does not remove the authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect (CVE-2018-25091)
• golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large exponents (CVE-2021-33198)
• golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (CVE-2021-34558)
• golang: archive/tar: unbounded memory consumption when reading headers (CVE-2022-2879)
• golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy should not forward unparseable query parameters (CVE-2022-2880)
• golang: regexp/syntax: limit memory used by parsing regexps (CVE-2022-41715)
• golang: crypto/tls: slow verification of certificate chains containing large RSA keys (CVE-2023-29409)
• golang: html/template: improper handling of HTML-like comments within script contexts (CVE-2023-39318)
• golang: html/template: improper handling of special tags within script contexts (CVE-2023-39319)
• golang: crypto/tls: panic when processing post-handshake message on QUIC connections (CVE-2023-39321)
• golang: crypto/tls: lack of a limit on buffered post-handshake (CVE-2023-39322)
• golang: net/http/internal: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Consumption via HTTP requests (CVE-2023-39326)
• golang: crypto/tls: Timing Side Channel attack in RSA based TLS key exchanges. (CVE-2023-45287)
• urllib3: Request body not stripped after redirect from 303 status changes request method to GET (CVE-2023-45803)
• ssh: Prefix truncation attack on Binary Packet Protocol (BPP) (CVE-2023-48795)
• moby/buildkit: Possible race condition with accessing subpaths from cache mounts (CVE-2024-23650)

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 8.10 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 IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1983596 - CVE-2021-34558 golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic
• 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 - 2132867 - CVE-2022-2879 golang: archive/tar: unbounded memory consumption when reading headers
• BZ - 2132868 - CVE-2022-2880 golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy should not forward unparseable query parameters
• BZ - 2132872 - CVE-2022-41715 golang: regexp/syntax: limit memory used by parsing regexps
• BZ - 2228743 - CVE-2023-29409 golang: crypto/tls: slow verification of certificate chains containing large RSA keys
• BZ - 2237773 - CVE-2023-39319 golang: html/template: improper handling of special tags within script contexts
• BZ - 2237776 - CVE-2023-39318 golang: html/template: improper handling of HTML-like comments within script contexts
• BZ - 2237777 - CVE-2023-39321 golang: crypto/tls: panic when processing post-handshake message on QUIC connections
• BZ - 2237778 - CVE-2023-39322 golang: crypto/tls: lack of a limit on buffered post-handshake
• BZ - 2244340 - CVE-2018-25091 urllib3: urllib3 does not remove the authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect
• BZ - 2246840 - CVE-2023-45803 urllib3: Request body not stripped after redirect from 303 status changes request method to GET
• BZ - 2253193 - CVE-2023-45287 golang: crypto/tls: Timing Side Channel attack in RSA based TLS key exchanges.
• BZ - 2253330 - CVE-2023-39326 golang: net/http/internal: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Consumption via HTTP requests
• BZ - 2254210 - CVE-2023-48795 ssh: Prefix truncation attack on Binary Packet Protocol (BPP)
• BZ - 2262272 - CVE-2024-23650 moby/buildkit: Possible race condition with accessing subpaths from cache mounts
• RHEL-2598 - Enable relative path for podman imageCopyTmpDir
• RHEL-18150 - podman update --memory option not updating the memory of the running contianer
• RHEL-3146 - [RFE] RFE to terminationGracePeriod in podman play kube
• RHEL-3088 - Add nftables support to netavark
• RHEL-26594 - buildah can't be used rootless by FreeIPA users because it is not linked with libsubid
• RHEL-9836 - bind-mounting FIPS policy is not robust enough, falls apart when crypto-policies-scripts gets updated
• RHEL-3093 - [RFE] Ensure layer isn't unnecessarily re-pushed in c/image

CVEs

• CVE-2018-25091
• CVE-2021-33198
• CVE-2021-34558
• CVE-2022-2879
• CVE-2022-2880
• CVE-2022-41715
• CVE-2023-29409
• CVE-2023-39318
• CVE-2023-39319
• CVE-2023-39321
• CVE-2023-39322
• CVE-2023-39326
• CVE-2023-45287
• CVE-2023-45803
• CVE-2023-48795
• CVE-2024-23650

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.10_release_notes/index