Important: container-tools:1.0 security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Important: container-tools:1.0 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for the container-tools:1.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc.

Security Fix(es):

• buildah: Crafted input tar file may lead to local file overwrite during image build process (CVE-2020-10696)
  

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):

• conflicting requests: failed to install container-tools:1.0 (BZ#1813776)
  
• podman run container error with avc denied (BZ#1816541)

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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1776313 - create advisory for container-tools-1.0-8.2.0
• BZ - 1813776 - conflicting requests: failed to install container-tools:1.0
• BZ - 1816541 - podman run container error with avc denied
• BZ - 1817651 - CVE-2020-10696 buildah: Crafted input tar file may lead to local file overwrite during image build process

CVEs

• CVE-2020-10696

References

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