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):
* 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 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
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| Rocky Linux · 9 | podman | 6:5.6.0-9.el9_7 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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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…
References
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report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2407258