Moderate: podman security and bug fix update

2024-04-3000:00:00

Google

osv.dev

podman

containers

security

bug fixes

kubernetes

libpod

cve

buildah

jira

8.6 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.1%

JSON

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 Fixes:

podman: golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)
podman: buildah: full container escape at build time (CVE-2024-1753)

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 Fixes:

liveness probe not called by podman when using httpGet (JIRA:AlmaLinux-28633)
Unable to copy image from one virtual machine to another using “podman image scp” (JIRA:AlmaLinux-28629)
[v4.9] Backport two docker CLI compatibility fixes (JIRA:AlmaLinux-28636)
Issue in podman causing S2I to fail in overwriting ENTRYPOINT (JIRA:AlmaLinux-14922)
Need to backport podman fix for SIGSEGV in AlmaLinux 9.3/8.9 for UBI based containers (JIRA:AlmaLinux-26843)