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Low ALSA-2022:8431 2 CVEs

Low: podman security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Nov 15, 2022 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Security Fix(es):

* 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.

Bug Fix(es):

* (podman image trust) does not support the new trust type "sigstoreSigned " (BZ#2120436)
* dnf-update broken for podman/catatonit (BZ#2123319)
* podman creates lock file in /etc/cni/net.d/cni.lock instead of /run/lock/ (BZ#2123905)
* podman kill may deadlock [AlmaLinux 9.1] (BZ#2124716)
* containers config.json gets empty after sudden power loss (BZ#2136278)
* PANIC podman API service endpoint handler panic (BZ#2136287)

Enhancement(s):

* Podman volume plugin timeout should be configurable [almalinux-9.1.0 Z] (BZ#2124676)
* [RFE]Podman support to perform custom actions on unhealthy containers (BZ#2136281)

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 podman 2:4.2.0-7.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-catatonit 2:4.2.0-7.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-docker 2:4.2.0-7.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-gvproxy 2:4.2.0-7.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-plugins 2:4.2.0-7.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-remote 2:4.2.0-7.el9_1
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-tests 2:4.2.0-7.el9_1

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • 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/2121445
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2121453
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-8431.html