RedHat: RHSA-2020-5056:01 Moderate: podman security and bug fix update
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)
Summary
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
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/
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.
Topic
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.
