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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Podman Update: RHSA-2020:5056-01 Moderate Update

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent Podman update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux improves stability and addresses vulnerabilities, ensuring security and optimal performance for containers
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):
* golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)
* podman: environment variables leak between containers when started via Varlink or Docker-compatible REST API (CVE-2020-14370)
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):
* podman does not use $TMPDIR loading a tar file (BZ#1877699)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux infinite loop podman environment variable leak

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14040 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14370 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras:
Source: podman-1.6.4-26.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: podman-docker-1.6.4-26.el7_9.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: podman-1.6.4-26.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.6.4-26.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: podman-1.6.4-26.el7_9.s390x.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.6.4-26.el7_9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: podman-1.6.4-26.el7_9.x86_64.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.6.4-26.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras:
Source: podman-1.6.4-26.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: podman-docker-1.6.4-26.el7_9.noarch.rpm
x86_64: podman-1.6.4-26.el7_9.x86_64.rpm podman-debuginfo-1.6.4-26.el7_9.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-2020:5056-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5056
Issue date: 2020-11-10

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 moderate security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux infinite loop podman environment variable leak

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash

1874268 - CVE-2020-14370 podman: environment variables leak between containers when started via Varlink or Docker-compatible REST API

1877699 - podman does not use $TMPDIR loading a tar file.

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