Use After Free Affecting podman package, versions <0:1.6.4-36.el7_9


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.91% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PODMAN-5058406
  • published19 Aug 2022
  • disclosed19 Aug 2022

Introduced: 19 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2738  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 podman to version 0:1.6.4-36.el7_9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:6119.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream podman package and not the podman package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The version of podman as released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras via RHSA-2022:2190 advisory included an incorrect version of podman missing the fix for CVE-2020-8945, which was previously fixed via RHSA-2020:2117. This issue could possibly be used to crash or cause potential code execution in Go applications that use the Go GPGME wrapper library, under certain conditions, during GPG signature verification.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1