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RedHat 4.3 OpenShift Podman Security Update: Low Severity Impact

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Explore the minor impact podman security patch for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 4.3.5 and what it means for users.
An update for podman is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 see the following documentation, which will be updated shortly for release 4.3.5, for important instructions on how to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.3/html/release_notes/ocp-4-3-release-notes

Details on how to access this content are available at - -cli.html.

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.
Security Fix(es):
* podman: incorrectly allowed existing files in volumes to be overwritten by a container when it was created (CVE-2020-1726)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat low severity OpenShift podman container management

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1726 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3:
Source: podman-1.6.4-7.el8.src.rpm
noarch: podman-docker-1.6.4-7.el8.noarch.rpm podman-manpages-1.6.4-7.el8.noarch.rpm
x86_64: podman-1.6.4-7.el8.x86_64.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.6.4-7.el8.x86_64.rpm podman-debugsource-1.6.4-7.el8.x86_64.rpm podman-remote-1.6.4-7.el8.x86_64.rpm podman-remote-debuginfo-1.6.4-7.el8.x86_64.rpm podman-tests-1.6.4-7.el8.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


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0680-01
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0680
Issue date: 2020-03-10

Topic

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat OpenShift ContainerPlatform 4.3.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat low severity OpenShift podman container management

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1801152 - CVE-2020-1726 podman: incorrectly allows existing files in volumes to be overwritten by a container when it is created

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