Low: Image Builder security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-32189  

Synopsis

Low: Image Builder security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

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Topic

An update for cockpit-composer, osbuild, osbuild-composer, and weldr-client is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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

Image Builder is a service for building customized OS artifacts, such as VM images and OSTree commits, that uses osbuild under the hood.

Security Fix(es):

  • golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service (CVE-2022-32189)

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 9.1 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 9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2059869 - Update osbuild to the newest upstream version in RHEL 9.1
  • BZ - 2059870 - Update osbuild-composer to the newest upstream version in RHEL 9.1
  • BZ - 2060061 - Rebase cockpit-composer to newest release for RHEL 9.1
  • BZ - 2062597 - [cockpit-composer] RHEL 9.1 Tier 0 Localization
  • BZ - 2064087 - suggest to exclude dracut-config-rescue in rhel ec2 images
  • BZ - 2088459 - [osbuild-composer] cannot build an edge container with sssd
  • BZ - 2105961 - edge-installer (anaconda) fails if user has ssh-key defined
  • BZ - 2110864 - edge-installer ISO image can't boot on BIOS VM
  • BZ - 2113814 - CVE-2022-32189 golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service
  • BZ - 2118831 - Backport test changes for new osbuild-composer
  • BZ - 2123055 - edge images default to LVM
  • BZ - 2123210 - podman network backend does not switch to netavark when embedding container in image