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Medium ALSA-2024:6187 1 CVE

Moderate: gvisor-tap-vsock security update

Published Sep 3, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

A replacement for libslirp and VPNKit, written in pure Go. It is based on the network stack of gVisor and is used to provide networking for podman-machine virtual machines. Compared to libslirp, gvisor-tap-vsock brings a configurable DNS server and dynamic port forwarding.

Security Fix(es):

* golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm (CVE-2024-24783)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 gvisor-tap-vsock 6:0.7.3-5.el9_4.alma.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2024-24783

    Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm in crypto/x509

    Verifying a certificate chain which contains a certificate with an unknown public key algorithm will cause Certificate.Verify to panic. This affects all crypto/tls clients, and servers that set Config.ClientAuth to VerifyClientCertIfGiven or RequireAndVerifyC…

    Go standard library crypto/x509 golang go Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi Go

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-24783
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2268019
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-6187.html