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High ALSA-2024:8039 4 CVEs

Important: podman security update

Published Oct 14, 2024 · 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):

* go/parser: golang: Calling any of the Parse functions containing deeply nested literals can cause a panic/stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34155)
* encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34156)
* go/build/constraint: golang: Calling Parse on a "// +build" build tag line with deeply nested expressions can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion (CVE-2024-34158)
* Podman: Buildah: cri-o: FIPS Crypto-Policy Directory Mounting Issue in containers/common Go Library (CVE-2024-9341)

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 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 podman 4:4.9.4-13.el9_4
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-docker 4:4.9.4-13.el9_4
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-plugins 4:4.9.4-13.el9_4
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-remote 4:4.9.4-13.el9_4
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-tests 4:4.9.4-13.el9_4

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-34155
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-34156
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-34158
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9341
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2310527
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2310528
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2310529
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2315691
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-8039.html