Moderate: podman security, bug fix, and enhancement 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: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace (CVE-2023-24540)
• net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding (CVE-2022-41723)
• golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics (CVE-2022-41724)
• golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2022-41725)
• golang.org/x/net/html: Cross site scripting (CVE-2023-3978)
• golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation (CVE-2023-24534)
• golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2023-24536)
• golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing (CVE-2023-24537)
• golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters (CVE-2023-24538)
• golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values (CVE-2023-24539)
• containerd: Supplementary groups are not set up properly (CVE-2023-25173)
• golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes (CVE-2023-29400)
• golang: net/http: insufficient sanitization of Host header (CVE-2023-29406)

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 9.3 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 - 2173089 - Podman containers do not start after upgrade to v4.4.1
• BZ - 2174485 - CVE-2023-25173 containerd: Supplementary groups are not set up properly
• BZ - 2177611 - [Regression] podman-4.4.0-1.el9 breaks checkpoint/restore
• BZ - 2178358 - CVE-2022-41723 net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding
• BZ - 2178488 - CVE-2022-41725 golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption
• BZ - 2178492 - CVE-2022-41724 golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics
• BZ - 2180108 - --health-on-failure=restart doesn't restart container
• BZ - 2182485 - keep-id generates an entry in /etc/resolv.conf if used with podman
• BZ - 2182896 - --dns-add command is not functioning
• BZ - 2183597 - docker login compatibility issue
• BZ - 2183975 - [RFE] Add option to "podman kube generate" to print podman annotations
• BZ - 2184481 - CVE-2023-24538 golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters
• BZ - 2184482 - CVE-2023-24536 golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption
• BZ - 2184483 - CVE-2023-24534 golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation
• BZ - 2184484 - CVE-2023-24537 golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing
• BZ - 2187187 - "Alias" manpages should be included in podman-docker sub-package
• BZ - 2188340 - --dns-add get error logs when there is no container attached to the network
• BZ - 2196026 - CVE-2023-24539 golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values
• BZ - 2196027 - CVE-2023-24540 golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace
• BZ - 2196029 - CVE-2023-29400 golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes
• BZ - 2222167 - CVE-2023-29406 golang: net/http: insufficient sanitization of Host header
• BZ - 2223350 - Panics in podman during overcloud update while reverting ovn migration
• BZ - 2228689 - CVE-2023-3978 golang.org/x/net/html: Cross site scripting
• BZ - 2229644 - podman build fails sometime while using podman remote client [rhel-9.3]
• BZ - 2230212 - Multi-line value used for --env is cut at newline
• BZ - 2231975 - podman 4.6.0-3 is actually podman 4.7.0-dev, it is causing several issues.
• BZ - 2232308 - Backport of https://github.com/containers/storage/pull/1688 onto podman 4.6.1
• BZ - 2233222 - Containers created with --restart=always do not restart when started through a pod
• RHEL-3133 - Remove default pre-exec hook directories.
• RHEL-3132 - Podman system service doesn't work in container

CVEs

• CVE-2022-41723
• CVE-2022-41724
• CVE-2022-41725
• CVE-2023-3978
• CVE-2023-24534
• CVE-2023-24536
• CVE-2023-24537
• CVE-2023-24538
• CVE-2023-24539
• CVE-2023-24540
• CVE-2023-25173
• CVE-2023-29400
• CVE-2023-29406

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.3_release_notes/index