Important: container-tools:rhel8 security update

Synopsis

Important: container-tools:rhel8 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 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.

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 - 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