RHSA-2025:23347 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support.

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):

• runc: container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects (CVE-2025-52881)
• golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map (CVE-2025-58183)

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 - Extended Update Support 10.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - 4 years of support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2404715 - CVE-2025-52881 runc: opencontainers/selinux: container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects
• BZ - 2407258 - CVE-2025-58183 golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map

CVEs

• CVE-2025-52881
• CVE-2025-58183

References

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