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Moderate Security Update for Container-Tools in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu has released a notice regarding a low-risk patch for the networking-tools in Ubuntu 20.04, emphasizing security enhancements and bug resolutions.
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):
* golang: crypto/ssh: crafted authentication request can lead to nil pointer dereference (CVE-2020-29652)
* podman: Remote traffic to rootless containers is seen as orginating from localhost (CVE-2021-20199)
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 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat software update bug fix container-tools

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29652 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20199 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: buildah-1.19.7-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm cockpit-podman-29-2.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm conmon-2.0.26-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm container-selinux-2.158.0-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm containernetworking-plugins-0.9.1-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm criu-3.15-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm crun-0.18-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm fuse-overlayfs-1.4.0-2.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm libslirp-4.3.1-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm oci-seccomp-bpf-hook-1.2.0-2.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm podman-3.0.1-6.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm runc-1.0.0-70.rc92.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm skopeo-1.2.2-8.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm slirp4netns-1.1.8-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm toolbox-0.0.8-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm udica-0.2.4-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.src.rpm
aarch64: buildah-1.19.7-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.aarch64.rpm buildah-debuginfo-1.19.7-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.aarch64.rpm buildah-debugsource-1.19.7-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.aarch64.rpm buildah-tests-1.19.7-1.module+el8.4.0+10607+f4da7515.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1796-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1796
Issue date: 2021-05-18

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat software update bug fix container-tools

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1707078 - Image signature only has one docker registry reference, would like the ability to have two hostnames sign them.

1724946 - Can not verify signed image signature in OCP 4

1726442 - SIGTERM from systemd to containers|conmon on shutdown causes unexpected results

1763007 - --log-opt for podman run does not work as expected

1770037 - (podman sign) does not handle multi-arch images

1798278 - subscription-manager recommends drags in too much into RHCOS

1811773 - [RFE] cockpit-podman ability to set selinux contexts for volumes

1838233 - address coverity warnings

1841485 - podman exec is fragile in the presence of signals

1844199 - [RFE] Add remapIdentity suggestion to simplify policy configuration

1853455 - podman ignores infra_command option from containers.conf

1860176 - OCI Runtime kata-runtime is in use by a container, but is not available

1867892 - running containerized buildah leads to error

1881894 - podman-remote: dial unix ///run/podman/podman.sock: connect: no such file or directory

1897282 - podman-wait requiring units for interval when it is documented as optional

1897594 - update description and summary for container-tools module for 8.3.0

1902979 - podman run fails to update /etc/hosts when --uidmap is provided

1903813 - [RFE] Ship preconfigured /etc/containers/registries.d/ files with containers-common

1904549 - POST to /networks/create with docker compatible API results in panic

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