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Medium ALSA-2022:8008 7 CVEs

Moderate: buildah security and bug fix update

Published Nov 15, 2022 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The buildah package provides a tool for facilitating building OCI container images. Among other things, buildah enables you to: Create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting point; Create an image, either from a working container or using the instructions in a Dockerfile; Build both Docker and OCI images.

Security Fix(es):

* containers/storage: DoS via malicious image (CVE-2021-20291)
* golang: net: lookup functions may return invalid host names (CVE-2021-33195)
* golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (CVE-2021-33197)
* golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large exponents (CVE-2021-33198)
* golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)
* podman: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2989)
* buildah: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2990)

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 buildah 1:1.27.0-2.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 buildah-tests 1:1.27.0-2.el9

Vulnerabilities 7

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20291
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33195
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33197
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33198
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-27191
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2989
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2990
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1939485
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1989564
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1989570
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1989575
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2064702
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2121445
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2121453
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-8008.html