Resource Exhaustion Affecting podman package, versions <3:4.9.4-0.1.module+el8.10.0+21350+ea09fba1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-PODMAN-6104279
  • published 7 Dec 2023
  • disclosed 6 Dec 2023

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:8 podman to version 3:4.9.4-0.1.module+el8.10.0+21350+ea09fba1 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 HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real body to encoded bytes grows too small.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

5.3 medium
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SUSE

7.5 high