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High RLSA-2025:21702 1 CVE

Important: podman security update

Published Nov 21, 2025 · Updated Nov 21, 2025

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):

* runc: container escape and denial of service due to arbitrary write gadgets and procfs write redirects (CVE-2025-52881)

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 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 podman 6:5.6.0-7.el9_7

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.3
    CVE-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…

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404715