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Medium ALSA-2024:3968 2 CVEs

Moderate: container-tools:rhel8 bug fix and enhancement update

Published Jun 18, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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

Security Fix(es):

* podman: jose-go: improper handling of highly compressed data (CVE-2024-28180)
* buildah: jose-go: improper handling of highly compressed data (CVE-2024-28180)
* podman: jose-go: resource exhaustion (CVE-2024-28176)
* buildah: jose-go: resource exhaustion (CVE-2024-28176)
* skopeo: jose-go: resource exhaustion (CVE-2024-28176)

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinuxRelease Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 51

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 aardvark-dns 2:1.10.0-1.module_el8.10.0+3792+03eaed9c
AlmaLinux · 8 aardvark-dns 2:1.10.0-1.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 buildah 2:1.33.7-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 buildah-tests 2:1.33.7-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 cockpit-podman 84.1-1.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 conmon 3:2.1.10-1.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 conmon 3:2.1.10-1.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 container-selinux 2:2.229.0-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 containernetworking-plugins 1:1.4.0-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 containernetworking-plugins 1:1.4.0-2.module_el8.10.0+3792+03eaed9c
AlmaLinux · 8 containers-common 2:1-81.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 containers-common 2:1-81.module_el8.10.0+3792+03eaed9c
AlmaLinux · 8 crit 3.18-5.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 crit 3.18-5.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 criu 3.18-5.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 criu 3.18-5.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 criu-devel 3.18-5.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 criu-libs 3.18-5.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 crun 1.14.3-2.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 crun 1.14.3-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 fuse-overlayfs 1.13-1.module_el8.10.0+3792+03eaed9c
AlmaLinux · 8 libslirp 4.4.0-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 libslirp 4.4.0-2.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 libslirp-devel 4.4.0-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 libslirp-devel 4.4.0-2.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 netavark 2:1.10.3-1.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 netavark 2:1.10.3-1.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 oci-seccomp-bpf-hook 1.2.10-1.module_el8.10.0+3792+03eaed9c
AlmaLinux · 8 podman 4:4.9.4-3.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 podman-catatonit 4:4.9.4-3.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 podman-docker 4:4.9.4-3.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 podman-gvproxy 4:4.9.4-3.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 podman-plugins 4:4.9.4-3.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 podman-remote 4:4.9.4-3.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 podman-tests 4:4.9.4-3.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 python3-criu 3.18-5.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 python3-criu 3.18-5.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 python3-podman 4.9.0-1.module_el8.10.0+3792+03eaed9c
AlmaLinux · 8 runc 1:1.1.12-1.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 runc 1:1.1.12-1.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 skopeo 2:1.14.3-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 skopeo 2:1.14.3-2.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 skopeo-tests 2:1.14.3-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 skopeo-tests 2:1.14.3-2.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 slirp4netns 1.2.3-1.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 slirp4netns 1.2.3-1.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 toolbox 0.0.99.5-2.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 toolbox 0.0.99.5-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 toolbox-tests 0.0.99.5-2.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f
AlmaLinux · 8 toolbox-tests 0.0.99.5-2.module_el8.10.0+3845+87b84552
AlmaLinux · 8 udica 0.2.6-21.module_el8.10.0+3858+6ad51f9f

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 4.9

    jose vulnerable to resource exhaustion via specifically crafted JWE with compressed plaintext

    jose is JavaScript module for JSON Object Signing and Encryption, providing support for JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSON Web Signature (JWS), JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Key (JWK), JSON Web Key Set (JWKS), and more. A vulnerability has been identified in t…

  • Medium 4.3

    Go JOSE vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

    Package jose aims to provide an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards. An attacker could send a JWE containing compressed data that used large amounts of memory and CPU when decompressed by Decrypt or DecryptMulti. Th…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28176
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28180
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2268820
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2268854
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-3968.html