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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras RHSA-2018-2037-01 Moderate Podman Update

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2018
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A critical podman security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras mitigates important vulnerabilities and risks.
An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras

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

Summary

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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: podman (0.6.1). (BZ#1584429)
Security Fix(es):
* podman: Containers run as non-root users do not drop capabilities (CVE-2018-10856)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Red Hat Enterprise Linux container podman

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10856 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras:
Source: podman-0.6.1-3.git3e0ff12.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: podman-0.6.1-3.git3e0ff12.el7.ppc64le.rpm podman-debuginfo-0.6.1-3.git3e0ff12.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: podman-0.6.1-3.git3e0ff12.el7.s390x.rpm podman-debuginfo-0.6.1-3.git3e0ff12.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: podman-0.6.1-3.git3e0ff12.el7.x86_64.rpm podman-debuginfo-0.6.1-3.git3e0ff12.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2037-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2037
Issue date: 2018-06-26

Topic

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Extras.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Red Hat Enterprise Linux container podman

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras - ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1592166 - CVE-2018-10856 podman: Containers run as non-root users do not drop capabilities

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