Low: skopeo security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Low: skopeo security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

An update for skopeo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The skopeo command lets you inspect images from container image registries, get images and image layers, and use signatures to create and verify files.

Security Fix(es):

• containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory (CVE-2020-1702)
  

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):

• Proposed registries.conf for RHEL 7.8 (BZ#1810052)

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1792796 - CVE-2020-1702 containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory
• BZ - 1810052 - Proposed registries.conf for RHEL 7.8

CVEs

• CVE-2020-1702

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low