RHSA-2025:20909 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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):

• database/sql: Postgres Scan Race Condition (CVE-2025-47907)
• podman: Podman kube play command may overwrite host files (CVE-2025-9566)

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.

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 IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2387083 - CVE-2025-47907 database/sql: Postgres Scan Race Condition
• BZ - 2393152 - CVE-2025-9566 podman: Podman kube play command may overwrite host files
• RHEL-110317 - Can not find network create and rm message from podman event when set --events-backend to journald - [RHEL 9.7] 0day
• RHEL-111076 - Timeouts while pushing Sigstore logs to Rekor - [RHEL 9.7] 0day
• RHEL-116091 - podman: create parent directories of mount targets with mode 0755 - [RHEL-9.7] 0day

CVEs

• CVE-2025-9566
• CVE-2025-47907

References

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