Directory Traversal Affecting podman-catatonit package, versions <3:4.4.1-8.rhaos4.12.el8


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PODMANCATATONIT-8350222
  • published7 Nov 2024
  • disclosed15 Oct 2024

Introduced: 15 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-9676  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 podman-catatonit to version 3:4.4.1-8.rhaos4.12.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:8694.

NVD Description

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

A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (--userns=auto in Podman and Buildah). The containers/storage library will read /etc/passwd inside the container, but does not properly validate if that file is a symlink, which can be used to cause the library to read an arbitrary file on the host.

CVSS Scores

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