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High ALSA-2026:19173 1 CVE

Important: podman security update

Published May 19, 2026 · 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):

* github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3: github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4: Go JOSE: Denial of Service via crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object (CVE-2026-34986)

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 6:5.8.2-1.el9_8
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-docker 6:5.8.2-1.el9_8
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-plugins 6:5.8.2-1.el9_8
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-remote 6:5.8.2-1.el9_8
AlmaLinux · 9 podman-tests 6:5.8.2-1.el9_8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    Go JOSE affect by a panic in JWE decryption

    Go JOSE provides an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards in Go, including support for JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Signature (JWS), and JSON Web Token (JWT) standards. Prior to 4.1.4 and 3.0.5, decrypting a JS…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34986
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2455470
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2026-19173.html