Resource Exhaustion Affecting container-tools:rhel8/fuse-overlayfs package, versions <0:0.7.2-5.module+el8.2.0+6060+9dbc027d


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-CONTAINERTOOLS-3691845
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Jan 2020

Introduced: 20 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-1702  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 container-tools:rhel8/fuse-overlayfs to version 0:0.7.2-5.module+el8.2.0+6060+9dbc027d or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1650.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream container-tools:rhel8/fuse-overlayfs package and not the container-tools:rhel8/fuse-overlayfs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.

CVSS Scores

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