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High ALSA-2025:0923 1 CVE

Important: buildah security update

Published Feb 4, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

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):

* podman: buildah: Container breakout by using --jobs=2 and a race condition when building a malicious Containerfile (CVE-2024-11218)

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 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 buildah 2:1.37.6-1.el9_5
AlmaLinux · 9 buildah-tests 2:1.37.6-1.el9_5

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11218
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2326231
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-0923.html