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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-9676: Important: podman security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2024-9676: Important: podman security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/15/2024
Created
11/13/2024
Added
11/12/2024
Modified
11/19/2024

Description

A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (`--userns=auto` in Podman and Buildah). The containers/storage library will read /etc/passwd inside the container, but does not properly validate if that file is a symlink, which can be used to cause the library to read an arbitrary file on the host.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-buildah
  • alma-upgrade-buildah-tests
  • alma-upgrade-podman
  • alma-upgrade-podman-docker
  • alma-upgrade-podman-plugins
  • alma-upgrade-podman-remote
  • alma-upgrade-podman-tests

References

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