Moderate: podman security and bug fix update

2024-05-1014:32:42

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osv.dev

podman security

container pods

kubernetes

bug fixes

cve-2024-24786

cve-2024-1753

jira rocky linux-28633

jira rocky linux-28629

jira rocky linux-28636

jira rocky linux-14922

jira rocky linux-26843

libpod library

8.6 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

16.8%

JSON

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 Fixes:

podman: golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)
podman: buildah: full container escape at build time (CVE-2024-1753)

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.

Bug Fixes:

liveness probe not called by podman when using httpGet (JIRA:Rocky Linux-28633)
Unable to copy image from one virtual machine to another using “podman image scp” (JIRA:Rocky Linux-28629)
[v4.9] Backport two docker CLI compatibility fixes (JIRA:Rocky Linux-28636)
Issue in podman causing S2I to fail in overwriting ENTRYPOINT (JIRA:Rocky Linux-14922)
Need to backport podman fix for SIGSEGV in Rocky Linux 9.3/8.9 for UBI based containers (JIRA:Rocky Linux-26843)