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):
* golang: net/http/internal: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Consumption via HTTP requests (CVE-2023-39326)
* golang: crypto/tls: Timing Side Channel attack in RSA based TLS key exchanges. (CVE-2023-45287)
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 5
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman | 2:4.9.4-0.1.el9 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman-docker | 2:4.9.4-0.1.el9 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman-plugins | 2:4.9.4-0.1.el9 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman-remote | 2:4.9.4-0.1.el9 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman-tests | 2:4.9.4-0.1.el9 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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Unscored —
Denial of service via chunk extensions in net/http
A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically rea…
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Unscored —
Before Go 1.20, the RSA based key exchange methods in crypto/tls may exhibit a timing side channel
Before Go 1.20, the RSA based TLS key exchanges used the math/big library, which is not constant time. RSA blinding was applied to prevent timing attacks, but analysis shows this may not have been fully effective. In particular it appears as if the removal of…