Moderate: container-tools:3.0 security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-21698   CVE-2023-28642  

Synopsis

Moderate: container-tools:3.0 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for the container-tools:3.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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):

  • prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)
  • runc: AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount configuration (CVE-2023-28642)

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.

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 - AUS 8.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2045880 - CVE-2022-21698 prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter
  • BZ - 2182883 - CVE-2023-28642 runc: AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount configuration
  • RHEL-17147 - podman load compressed tar file failed with container-tools:3.0 - RHEL 8.4