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RedHat: RHSA-2020-4694 Moderate: container-tools:rhel8 MitM Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The Red Hat advisory on container-tools:rhel8 highlights moderate security vulnerabilities needing attention. Users should review the provided documentation for necessary fixes and updates.
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):
* containernetworking/plugins: IPv6 router advertisements allow for MitM attacks on IPv4 clusters (CVE-2020-10749)
* QEMU: slirp: networking out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2020-10756)
* golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux networking Moderate container-tools MitM attack

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10749 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10756 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14040 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: buildah-1.15.1-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm cockpit-podman-18.1-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm conmon-2.0.20-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm container-selinux-2.144.0-1.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm containernetworking-plugins-0.8.6-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm criu-3.14-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm crun-0.14.1-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm fuse-overlayfs-1.1.2-3.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm libslirp-4.3.1-1.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm oci-seccomp-bpf-hook-1.1.2-3.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm podman-2.0.5-5.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm python-podman-api-1.2.0-0.2.gitd0a45fe.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm runc-1.0.0-68.rc92.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm skopeo-1.1.1-3.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm slirp4netns-1.1.4-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm toolbox-0.0.8-1.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm udica-0.2.2-1.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.src.rpm
aarch64: buildah-1.15.1-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.aarch64.rpm buildah-debuginfo-1.15.1-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.aarch64.rpm buildah-debugsource-1.15.1-2.module+el8.3.0+8221+97165c3f.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4694-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4694
Issue date: 2020-11-03

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 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 networking Moderate container-tools MitM attack

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1682970 - [RFE] Default location of setting up HTTP_Proxy for podman

1752079 - podman docker command fails at COPY - overwriting existing file

1785242 - container-tools: Provides: docker gone from podman-docker subpackage

1800815 - "podman login" writes auth.json in a location "skopeo copy" does not expect

1801874 - Podman segmentation error when a Dockerfile specifies an image by its digest

1804193 - Podman support for FIPS Mode requires a bind mount inside the container [container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.3.0/podman]

1804195 - Podman support for FIPS Mode requires a bind mount inside the container [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.2.0/podman]

1813845 - [RFE] HTTP/REST API for podman

1814928 - "podman exec -it" will hang with leading keyboard input

1818694 - Golang panic when pushing image to a scaled image-registry

1821193 - Update container-tools 8.3.0 components to stable releases

1822038 - buildah is not expanding env vars in file paths [stream-container-tools-rhel8-rhel-8.3.0/buildah]

1825789 - Crash on filtering anonymous images

1827794 - Podman search does not have pagination support

1833220 - CVE-2020-10749 containernetworking/plugins: IPv6 router advertisements allow for MitM attacks on IPv4 clusters1835986 - CVE-2020-10756 QEMU: slirp: networking out-of-bounds read information disclosure vulnerability

1837755 - --init feature useless out of the box

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