INFSA-2024:10289: container-tools:rhel8 security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2024:10289

Type: security

Release date: 2025-06-26 17:39:56 UTC

Information about package

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

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2021-33198

    In Go before 1.15.13 and 1.16.x before 1.16.5, there can be a panic for a large exponent to the math/big.Rat SetString or UnmarshalText method.

  • CVE-2024-9676

    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.

  • CVE-2021-4024

    A flaw was found in podman. The podman machine function (used to create and manage Podman virtual machine containing a Podman process) spawns a gvproxy process on the host system. The gvproxy API is accessible on port 7777 on all IP addresses on the host. If that port is open on the host's firewall, an attacker can potentially use the gvproxy API to forward ports on the host to ports in the VM, making private services on the VM accessible to the network. This issue could be also used to interrupt the host's services by forwarding all ports to the VM.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 7.5 no information
NIST — CVE-2021-4024
no information 4.8 no information
NIST — CVE-2024-9676
no information 6.5 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages