Resource Exhaustion Affecting podman package, versions <0:1.6.4-10.module+el8.2.0+6063+e761893a
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-PODMAN-1951653
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 20 Jan 2020
Introduced: 20 Jan 2020
CVE-2020-1702 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Centos:8 podman to version 0:1.6.4-10.module+el8.2.0+6063+e761893a or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream podman package and not the podman package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
A malicious container image can consume an unbounded amount of memory when being pulled to a container runtime host, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux using podman, or OpenShift Container Platform. An attacker can use this flaw to trick a user, with privileges to pull container images, into crashing the process responsible for pulling the image. This flaw affects containers-image versions before 5.2.0.