Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting podman-manpages package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-PODMANMANPAGES-3041450
  • published7 Oct 2022
  • disclosed4 Oct 2022

Introduced: 4 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-2879  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 podman-manpages.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream podman-manpages package and not the podman-manpages package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Reader.Read does not set a limit on the maximum size of file headers. A maliciously crafted archive could cause Read to allocate unbounded amounts of memory, potentially causing resource exhaustion or panics. After fix, Reader.Read limits the maximum size of header blocks to 1 MiB.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1