Product Errata

RLSA-2020:1379

Important: container-tools:rhel8 security and bug fix update

Topic

An update is available for udica, python-podman-api, slirp4netns, containernetworking-plugins, cockpit-podman.

This update affects Rocky Linux 8.

A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

* QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages (CVE-2020-8608)

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 Fix(es):

* useradd and groupadd fail under rootless Buildah and podman [stream-container-tools-Rocky Linux8-Rocky Linux-8.1.1] (BZ#1803495)

* Podman support for FIPS Mode requires a bind mount inside the container [stream-container-tools-Rocky Linux8-Rocky Linux-8.1.1/buildah] (BZ#1804188)

* Podman support for FIPS Mode requires a bind mount inside the container [stream-container-tools-Rocky Linux8-Rocky Linux-8.1.1/podman] (BZ#1804194)

* fuse-overlayfs segfault [stream-container-tools-Rocky Linux8-Rocky Linux-8.1.1/fuse-overlayfs] (BZ#1805016)

* buildah COPY command is slow when .dockerignore file is not present [stream-container-tools-Rocky Linux8-Rocky Linux-8.1.1/buildah] (BZ#1806119)

Issued: 4/7/2020

Type: Security

Severity: Important

Affected Product

  • Rocky Linux 8

References

  • No references