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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-4269-01 Important: Container-Tools Memory Growth Issues

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The security notice from Red Hat addresses significant patches and threats associated with container-tools:rhel8.
An update for the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc.
Security Fix(es):
* HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)
* HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9514)
* runc: AppArmor/SELinux bypass with malicious image that specifies a volume at /proc (CVE-2019-16884)
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):
* avc: podman run --security-opt label=type:svirt_qemu_net_t (BZ#1764318)
* backport json-file logging support to 1.4.2 (BZ#1770176)
* Selinux won't allow SCTP inter pod communication (BZ#1774382)

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix important Red Hat Enterprise AppArmor container-tools memory growth

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9512 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9514 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16884 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: buildah-1.9.0-5.module+el8.1.0+4240+893c1ab8.src.rpm cockpit-podman-4-1.module+el8.1.0+4081+b29780af.src.rpm container-selinux-2.123.0-2.module+el8.1.0+4900+9d7326b8.src.rpm containernetworking-plugins-0.8.1-3.module+el8.1.0+4881+045289ee.src.rpm fuse-overlayfs-0.4.1-1.module+el8.1.0+4081+b29780af.src.rpm oci-systemd-hook-0.1.15-2.git2d0b8a3.module+el8.1.0+4081+b29780af.src.rpm oci-umount-2.3.4-2.git87f9237.module+el8.1.0+4081+b29780af.src.rpm podman-1.4.2-6.module+el8.1.0+4830+f49150d7.src.rpm python-podman-api-1.2.0-0.1.gitd0a45fe.module+el8.1.0+4081+b29780af.src.rpm runc-1.0.0-61.rc8.module+el8.1.0+4873+4a24e241.src.rpm skopeo-0.1.37-6.module+el8.1.0+4876+e678a192.src.rpm slirp4netns-0.3.0-4.module+el8.1.0+4306+1d917805.src.rpm toolbox-0.0.4-1.module+el8.1.0+4081+b29780af.src.rpm
aarch64: buildah-1.9.0-5.module+el8.1.0+4240+893c1ab8.aarch64.rpm buildah-debuginfo-1.9.0-5.module+el8.1.0+4240+893c1ab8.aarch64.rpm buildah-debugsource-1.9.0-5.module+el8.1.0+4240+893c1ab8.aarch64.rpm buildah-tests-1.9.0-5.module+el8.1.0+4240+893c1ab8.aarch64.rpm buildah-tests-debuginfo-1.9.0-5.module+el8.1.0+4240+893c1ab8.aarch64.rpm containernetworking-plugins-0.8.1-3.module+el8.1.0+4881+045289ee.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:4269-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4269
Issue date: 2019-12-17

Topic

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix important Red Hat Enterprise AppArmor container-tools memory growth

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1735645 - CVE-2019-9512 HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth

1735744 - CVE-2019-9514 HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth

1757214 - CVE-2019-16884 runc: AppArmor/SELinux bypass with malicious image that specifies a volume at /proc

1764318 - avc: podman run --security-opt label=type:svirt_qemu_net_t [rhel-8.1.0.z]

1770176 - backport json-file logging support to 1.4.2 [rhel-8.1.0.z]

1774382 - Selinux won't allow SCTP inter pod communication [rhel-8.1.0.z]

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