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RHEL 8: RHSA-2022-1762-01 Important: Container Tools Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Essential patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 container utilities, addressing significant vulnerabilities and boosting efficiency.
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):
* psgo: Privilege escalation in 'podman top' (CVE-2022-1227)
* prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)
* podman: Default inheritable capabilities for linux container should be empty (CVE-2022-27649)
* crun: Default inheritable capabilities for linux container should be empty (CVE-2022-27650)
* buildah: Default inheritable capabilities for linux container should be empty (CVE-2022-27651)
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 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important Denial of Service container-tools

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1227 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21698 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27649 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27650 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27651 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: buildah-1.24.2-4.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm cockpit-podman-43-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm conmon-2.1.0-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm container-selinux-2.179.1-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm containernetworking-plugins-1.0.1-2.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm containers-common-1-27.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm criu-3.15-3.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm crun-1.4.4-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm fuse-overlayfs-1.8.2-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm libslirp-4.4.0-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm oci-seccomp-bpf-hook-1.2.3-3.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm podman-4.0.2-6.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm python-podman-4.0.0-1.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm runc-1.0.3-2.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm skopeo-1.6.1-2.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm slirp4netns-1.1.8-2.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm toolbox-0.0.99.3-0.4.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm udica-0.2.6-2.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.src.rpm
aarch64: aardvark-dns-1.0.1-27.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.aarch64.rpm buildah-1.24.2-4.module+el8.6.0+14673+621cb8be.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1762-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1762
Issue date: 2022-05-10

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 security issue bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important Denial of Service container-tools

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1861760 - RFE: podman - join multiple CNI network and set static IPs for them (multiple static networks)

1967642 - compilation of container_runtime_run interface leads to errors1982164 - Podman volumes with size options

1982784 - RFE: Full support for network management in the podman compatibility API

1995900 - Podman does not honor the userns configuration

1998835 - error loading cached network config: network "podman" not found in CNI cache

2000914 - Suggest a way forward if coreos/toolbox was used

2002721 - podman auto update fails to login to registry after podman upgrade to 3.2 [rhel-8.6.0]

2004993 - Switch to using the Toolbox-specific UBI image by default [rhel-8.6.0]

2005972 - podman 3.2.3: Recovering from API handler panic: runtime error: index out of range [58] with length 58, goroutine 805 [running]

2006678 - podman: panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

2009047 - Networking failure when running Fedora 35 container

2009296 - No events reported when creating pod with --infra=false

2017266 - [cockpit-podman] RHEL 8.6 Tier 0 Localization

2018949 - podman multi stage build failing when using with --pull flag

2023112 - Podman should be built with the support of 'libsubid'

2024229 - Healthcheck does not work with podman, after container stop/start

2025336 - [RFE] Backport GH#12294 PR to Podman - secret: honor custom target= for secrets with type=mount

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