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):
* runc: container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects (CVE-2025-52881)
* golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map (CVE-2025-58183)
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
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 10 | buildah | 2:1.41.6-1.el10_1 |
| AlmaLinux · 10 | buildah-tests | 2:1.41.6-1.el10_1 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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High 7.3CVE-2025-52881 Public exploit
runc: LSM labels can be bypassed with malicious config using dummy procfs files
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In versions 1.2.7, 1.3.2 and 1.4.0-rc.2, an attacker can trick runc into misdirecting writes to /proc to other procfs files through the use of a racing container with s…
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Medium 4.3
Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map in archive/tar
tar.Reader does not set a maximum size on the number of sparse region data blocks in GNU tar pax 1.0 sparse files. A maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions can cause a Reader to read an unbounded amount of data from the archiv…