Moderate: podman security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: podman security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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 Moderate. 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):

• golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)
  
• podman: environment variables leak between containers when started via Varlink or Docker-compatible REST API (CVE-2020-14370)
  

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):

• podman does not use $TMPDIR loading a tar file (BZ#1877699)

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 - 1853652 - CVE-2020-14040 golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash
• BZ - 1874268 - CVE-2020-14370 podman: environment variables leak between containers when started via Varlink or Docker-compatible REST API
• BZ - 1877699 - podman does not use $TMPDIR loading a tar file.

CVEs

• CVE-2020-14040
• CVE-2020-14370

References

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