Summary
The buildah package provides a tool for facilitating building OCI container images. Among other things, buildah enables you to: Create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting point; Create an image, either from a working container or using the instructions in a Dockerfile; Build both Docker and OCI images.
Security Fix(es):
* containers/image: digest type does not guarantee valid type (CVE-2024-3727)
* net/[http:](http:) Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in net/http (CVE-2024-24791)
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 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 9 | buildah | 2:1.37.2-1.el9 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | buildah-tests | 2:1.37.2-1.el9 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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High 8.3
Containers/image: digest type does not guarantee valid type
A flaw was found in the github.com/containers/image library. This flaw allows attackers to trigger unexpected authenticated registry accesses on behalf of a victim user, causing resource exhaustion, local path traversal, and other attacks.
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High 7.5
Denial of service due to improper 100-continue handling in net/http
The net/http HTTP/1.1 client mishandled the case where a server responds to a request with an "Expect: 100-continue" header with a non-informational (200 or higher) status. This mishandling could leave a client connection in an invalid state, where the next r…