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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2020-1227-01 Moderate: Podman Security Fix

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical announces an Important security patch for snapd, addressing serious vulnerabilities and improving application confinement.
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.
Security Fix(es):
* podman: resolving symlink in host filesystem leads to unexpected results of copy operation (CVE-2019-18466)
* containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory (CVE-2020-1702)
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):
* [extras-rhel-7] conmon binary stripped but debuginfo not generated (BZ#1650395)
* Cannot run systemd-container with SCL service due to RHSA-2019:2091 fix (BZ#1758509)
* Podman does not enforce registries.block in the registries.conf file (BZ#1787666)
* podman and podman-manpages needs merging (BZ#1788549)
* podman should be linked against gpgme-pthread (BZ#1793083)
* podman cannot support load tarball which the name with colon but docker can support this (BZ#1797599)
* podman (1.6.4) rhel 8.1 no route to host from inside container [extras-rhel-7.8/podman] (BZ#1806895)
* Podman can't reuse a container name, even if the container that was using it is no longer around [extras-rhel-7.8/podman] (BZ#1807437)
* podman exec does not reads from stdin [extras-rhel-7.8/podman] (BZ#1807586)
* [FJ8.2 Bug]: [REG]The "--group-add" option of "podman create" doesn't function. [extras-rhel-7.8/podman] (BZ#1808702)
Enhancement(s):
* [RFE] sctp support for podman (BZ#1664218)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact symlink issue podman container management

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18466 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1702 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras:
Source: podman-1.6.4-16.el7_8.src.rpm
noarch: podman-docker-1.6.4-16.el7_8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: podman-1.6.4-16.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.6.4-16.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: podman-1.6.4-16.el7_8.s390x.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.6.4-16.el7_8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: podman-1.6.4-16.el7_8.x86_64.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.6.4-16.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras:
Source: podman-1.6.4-16.el7_8.src.rpm
noarch: podman-docker-1.6.4-16.el7_8.noarch.rpm
x86_64: podman-1.6.4-16.el7_8.x86_64.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.6.4-16.el7_8.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-2020:1227-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1227
Issue date: 2020-03-31

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 bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact symlink issue podman container management

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1650395 - [extras-rhel-7] conmon binary stripped but debuginfo not generated

1744588 - CVE-2019-18466 podman: resolving symlink in host filesystem leads to unexpected results of copy operation

1758509 - Cannot run systemd-container with SCL service due to RHSA-2019:2091 fix

1788549 - podman and podman-manpages needs merging

1792796 - CVE-2020-1702 containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory

1797599 - podman cannot support load tarball which the name with colon but docker can support this

1806895 - podman (1.6.4) rhel 8.1 no route to host from inside container [extras-rhel-7.8/podman]

1807437 - Podman can't reuse a container name, even if the container that was using it is no longer around [extras-rhel-7.8/podman]

1807586 - podman exec does not reads from stdin [extras-rhel-7.8/podman]

1808702 - [FJ8.2 Bug]: [REG]The "--group-add" option of "podman create" doesn't function. [extras-rhel-7.8/podman]

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