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Red Hat Enterprise 7: RHSA-2022-1234-01 Moderate Podman Security Patch

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Cautionary update for podman addresses symlink vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, impacting container orchestration.
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 (1.4.4). (BZ#1717919)
Security Fix(es):
* podman: Improper symlink resolution allows access to host files when executing `podman cp` on running containers (CVE-2019-10152)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* Error: pod was given but no pod is specified: invalid argument (BZ#1727873)
* Podman stats failed with Error: unable to obtain cgroup stats (BZ#1728242)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat symlink podman container management

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10152 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras:
Source: podman-1.4.4-2.el7.src.rpm
aarch64: podman-1.4.4-2.el7.aarch64.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.4.4-2.el7.aarch64.rpm
noarch: podman-docker-1.4.4-2.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: podman-1.4.4-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.4.4-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: podman-1.4.4-2.el7.s390x.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.4.4-2.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: podman-1.4.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.4.4-2.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-2019:1907-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1907
Issue date: 2019-07-29

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 Red Hat symlink podman container management

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1715667 - CVE-2019-10152 podman: Improper symlink resolution allows access to host files when executing `podman cp` on running containers1717919 - rebase to v1.4.4

1727873 - Error: pod was given but no pod is specified: invalid argument

1728242 - Podman stats failed with Error: unable to obtain cgroup stats

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