Important: podman security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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.org/x/crypto/ssh: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via crafted AES-GCM packet decoder inputs (CVE-2026-46597)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* When using `--mount` in `podman run` results can be inconsistent, especially on /var/tmp (JIRA:Rocky Linux-154348)

* [RFE] SELinux confined users unable to start podman.socket systemd user service (JIRA:Rocky Linux-132875)

* [RFE] Mounting of NFS Quadlet volume fails with permission denied (JIRA:Rocky Linux-145863)

* [RFE] podman API socket to support TLS/mTLS (JIRA:Rocky Linux-91221)

* Rebase podman to the latest upstream release [rhel-9.9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-168737)

* podman does not clean up all files and leaves orphaned files consuming disk space [rhel-9.9] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-173976)

* [FJ9.8 Bug]: [REG]The "podman-remote save" command fails for rootless users. (JIRA:Rocky Linux-186006)

* podman: rebase to 5.8.5 (JIRA:Rocky Linux-212537)

* [FJ9.9 Bug]: [REG]The "podman rm" command can accidentally delete containers even though it is mounted by Buildah when used by a rootless user in remote. (JIRA:Rocky Linux-211092)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.