Moderate: container-tools:4.0 security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-1708   CVE-2022-27191   CVE-2022-29162  

Synopsis

Moderate: container-tools:4.0 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for the container-tools:4.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

Security Fix(es):

  • cri-o: memory exhaustion on the node when access to the kube api (CVE-2022-1708)
  • golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)
  • runc: incorrect handling of inheritable capabilities (CVE-2022-29162)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from 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 - 2064702 - CVE-2022-27191 golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server
  • BZ - 2076617 - Udica crashes when processing inspect file without capabilities
  • BZ - 2085361 - CVE-2022-1708 cri-o: memory exhaustion on the node when access to the kube api
  • BZ - 2086398 - CVE-2022-29162 runc: incorrect handling of inheritable capabilities