Moderate: podman security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for podman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing -u- extension (CVE-2020-28851)
• golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing bcp47 tag (CVE-2020-28852)
• podman: podman machine spawns gvproxy with port bound to all IPs (CVE-2021-4024)
• podman: Remote traffic to rootless containers is seen as orginating from localhost (CVE-2021-20199)
• containers/storage: DoS via malicious image (CVE-2021-20291)
• golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (CVE-2021-33197)
• golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (CVE-2021-34558)
• golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)

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 - 1913333 - CVE-2020-28851 golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing -u- extension
• BZ - 1913338 - CVE-2020-28852 golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing bcp47 tag
• BZ - 1919050 - CVE-2021-20199 podman: Remote traffic to rootless containers is seen as orginating from localhost
• BZ - 1939485 - CVE-2021-20291 containers/storage: DoS via malicious image
• BZ - 1972303 - TMPDIR is not working in podman pull and podman load [rhel-9.0 beta]
• BZ - 1983596 - CVE-2021-34558 golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic
• BZ - 1989570 - CVE-2021-33197 golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty
• BZ - 2026675 - CVE-2021-4024 podman: podman machine spawns gvproxy with port bound to all IPs
• BZ - 2040379 - Podman exe failed to cleanup dir with NFS
• BZ - 2064702 - CVE-2022-27191 golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server
• BZ - 2081349 - podman defaults to old network stack on RHEL9
• BZ - 2088116 - podman does not require netavark
• BZ - 2092798 - podman installation includes runc as a dependency
• BZ - 2097694 - Allow mounting -v /run:/run without leaking .containerenv file to the host

CVEs

• CVE-2020-28851
• CVE-2020-28852
• CVE-2021-4024
• CVE-2021-20199
• CVE-2021-20291
• CVE-2021-33197
• CVE-2021-34558
• CVE-2022-27191

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index