(RHSA-2023:6938) Moderate: container-tools:4.0 security and bug fix update

The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc.

Security Fix(es):

• go-yaml: Improve heuristics preventing CPU/memory abuse by parsing malicious or large YAML documents (CVE-2022-3064)

• 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)

• runc: Rootless runc makes /sys/fs/cgroup writable (CVE-2023-25809)

• runc: volume mount race condition (regression of CVE-2019-19921) (CVE-2023-27561)

• runc: AppArmor can be bypassed when /proc inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount configuration (CVE-2023-28642)

• 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 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.