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Red Hat RHSA-2020-1379-01 Important: Container-Tools RHEL8 Security Update

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has launched a significant patch for database-tools:rhel8 tackling severe vulnerabilities and glitches.
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):
* QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages (CVE-2020-8608)
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):
* useradd and groupadd fail under rootless Buildah and podman [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1] (BZ#1803495)
* Podman support for FIPS Mode requires a bind mount inside the container [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1/buildah] (BZ#1804188)
* Podman support for FIPS Mode requires a bind mount inside the container [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1/podman] (BZ#1804194)
* fuse-overlayfs segfault [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1/fuse-overlayfs] (BZ#1805016)
* buildah COPY command is slow when .dockerignore file is not present [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1/buildah] (BZ#1806119)

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat code execution bug fix important security impact container-tools

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8608 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: buildah-1.11.6-6.module+el8.1.1+5865+cc793d95.src.rpm cockpit-podman-11-1.module+el8.1.1+5259+bcdd613a.src.rpm conmon-2.0.6-1.module+el8.1.1+5259+bcdd613a.src.rpm container-selinux-2.124.0-1.module+el8.1.1+5259+bcdd613a.src.rpm containernetworking-plugins-0.8.3-4.module+el8.1.1+5259+bcdd613a.src.rpm fuse-overlayfs-0.7.2-5.module+el8.1.1+6114+953c5a57.src.rpm podman-1.6.4-4.module+el8.1.1+5885+44006e55.src.rpm python-podman-api-1.2.0-0.2.gitd0a45fe.module+el8.1.1+5259+bcdd613a.src.rpm runc-1.0.0-64.rc9.module+el8.1.1+5259+bcdd613a.src.rpm skopeo-0.1.40-8.module+el8.1.1+5351+506397b0.src.rpm slirp4netns-0.4.2-3.git21fdece.module+el8.1.1+5657+524a77d7.src.rpm toolbox-0.0.4-1.module+el8.1.1+4407+ac444e5d.src.rpm udica-0.2.1-2.module+el8.1.1+4975+482d6f5d.src.rpm
aarch64: buildah-1.11.6-6.module+el8.1.1+5865+cc793d95.aarch64.rpm buildah-debuginfo-1.11.6-6.module+el8.1.1+5865+cc793d95.aarch64.rpm buildah-debugsource-1.11.6-6.module+el8.1.1+5865+cc793d95.aarch64.rpm buildah-tests-1.11.6-6.module+el8.1.1+5865+cc793d95.aarch64.rpm buildah-tests-debuginfo-1.11.6-6.module+el8.1.1+5865+cc793d95.aarch64.rpm conmon-2.0.6-1.module+el8.1.1+5259+bcdd613a.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1379-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1379
Issue date: 2020-04-07

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat code execution bug fix important security impact container-tools

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1798453 - CVE-2020-8608 QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages

1803495 - useradd and groupadd fail under rootless Buildah and podman [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1]

1804188 - Podman support for FIPS Mode requires a bind mount inside the container [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1/buildah]

1804194 - Podman support for FIPS Mode requires a bind mount inside the container [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1/podman]

1805016 - fuse-overlayfs segfault [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1/fuse-overlayfs]

1806119 - buildah COPY command is slow when .dockerignore file is not present [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.1.1/buildah]

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