Important: podman security update

Synopsis

Important: podman security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

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

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 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 Fix(es):

• buildah: Crafted input tar file may lead to local file overwrite during image build process (CVE-2020-10696)
  
• proglottis/gpgme: Use-after-free in GPGME bindings during container image pull (CVE-2020-8945)
  

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 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 - 1795838 - CVE-2020-8945 proglottis/gpgme: Use-after-free in GPGME bindings during container image pull
• BZ - 1817651 - CVE-2020-10696 buildah: Crafted input tar file may lead to local file overwrite during image build process

CVEs

• CVE-2020-8945
• CVE-2020-10696

References

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