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Description

A flaw was found in Podman. If an attacker can pass a crafted tar archive to the `podman load` command, they can create files on the host machine with the privileges of the user running Podman.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8 Extended Update Support — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 podman No fix yet —
Debian 13 podman No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 podman No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS podman No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 10 buildah +1 2:1.43.1-7.el10_2 RHSA-2026:88262
RHEL 10 podman +3 7:5.8.2-12.el10_2 RHSA-2026:93464
RHEL 10 skopeo +1 2:1.22.2-6.el10_2 RHSA-2026:89761
RHEL 9 buildah +1 2:1.43.4-2.el9_8 RHSA-2026:90424
RHEL 9 podman +4 6:5.8.2-8.el9_8 RHSA-2026:90362
RHEL 9 skopeo +1 2:1.22.2-9.el9_8 RHSA-2026:90462
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9.8 EUS podman +4 6:5.8.2-10.el9_8 RHSA-2026:99093

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 10 buildah +1 2:1.43.1-7.el10_2 ALSA-2026:88262
AlmaLinux 10 podman +3 7:5.8.2-12.el10_2.alma.1 ALSA-2026:93464
AlmaLinux 10 skopeo +1 2:1.22.2-6.el10_2 ALSA-2026:89761
AlmaLinux 9 buildah +1 2:1.43.3-2.el9_8 ALSA-2026:90424, ALSA-2026:70640
AlmaLinux 9 podman +4 6:5.8.2-8.el9_8 ALSA-2026:90362
AlmaLinux 9 skopeo +1 2:1.22.2-8.el9_8 ALSA-2026:90462, ALSA-2026:70641

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 10 buildah 2:1.43.1-7.el10_2 RLSA-2026:88262
Rocky Linux 10 podman 7:5.8.2-12.el10_2 RLSA-2026:93464
Rocky Linux 10 skopeo 2:1.22.2-6.el10_2 RLSA-2026:89761
Rocky Linux 9 buildah 2:1.43.3-2.el9_8 RLSA-2026:90424, RLSA-2026:70640
Rocky Linux 9 podman 6:5.8.2-8.el9_8 RLSA-2026:90362
Rocky Linux 9 skopeo 2:1.22.2-8.el9_8 RLSA-2026:90462, RLSA-2026:70641
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed podman 6.1.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12068-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 podman 5.8.8-r0 —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 cri-o +5 No fix yet —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 10 buildah +1 2:1.43.1-7.0.1.el10_2 ELSA-2026-88262
Oracle Linux 10 podman +3 7:5.8.2-12.0.1.el10_2 ELSA-2026-93464
Oracle Linux 10 skopeo +1 2:1.22.2-6.el10_2 ELSA-2026-89761
Oracle Linux 9 buildah +1 2:1.43.3-2.0.1.el9_8 ELSA-2026-90424, ELSA-2026-70640
Oracle Linux 9 podman +4 6:5.8.2-8.0.1.el9_8 ELSA-2026-90362
Oracle Linux 9 skopeo +1 2:1.22.2-8.el9_8 ELSA-2026-90462, ELSA-2026-70641

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