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 Fixes:
* podman: golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)
* podman: buildah: full container escape at build time (CVE-2024-1753)
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 Fixes:
* liveness probe not called by podman when using httpGet (JIRA:AlmaLinux-28633)
* Unable to copy image from one virtual machine to another using "podman image scp" (JIRA:AlmaLinux-28629)
* [v4.9] Backport two docker CLI compatibility fixes (JIRA:AlmaLinux-28636)
* Issue in podman causing S2I to fail in overwriting ENTRYPOINT (JIRA:AlmaLinux-14922)
* Need to backport podman fix for SIGSEGV in AlmaLinux 9.3/8.9 for UBI based containers (JIRA:AlmaLinux-26843)
Fixed packages 5
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman | 4:4.9.4-3.el9_4 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman-docker | 4:4.9.4-3.el9_4 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman-plugins | 4:4.9.4-3.el9_4 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman-remote | 4:4.9.4-3.el9_4 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | podman-tests | 4:4.9.4-3.el9_4 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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High 8.6
Buildah: buildah: container escape via improper bind mount validation
A flaw was found in Buildah (and subsequently Podman Build) which allows containers to mount arbitrary locations on the host filesystem into build containers. A malicious Containerfile can use a dummy image with a symbolic link to the root filesystem as a mou…
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High 7.5
Infinite loop in JSON unmarshaling in google.golang.org/protobuf
The protojson.Unmarshal function can enter an infinite loop when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON. This condition can occur when unmarshaling into a message which contains a google.protobuf.Any value, or when the UnmarshalOptions.DiscardUnknown opti…