Important: container-tools:rhel8 security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for the container-tools:rhel8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support.

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):

• psgo: Privilege escalation in 'podman top' (CVE-2022-1227)

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):

• ubi9-beta/ubi-minimal has a broken microdnf (g_system_thread_new fatal error) (BZ#2095808)

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 - TUS 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2070368 - CVE-2022-1227 psgo: Privilege escalation in 'podman top'
• BZ - 2095808 - ubi9-beta/ubi-minimal has a broken microdnf (g_system_thread_new fatal error) [rhel-8.4.0.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1227

References

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