Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting podman-docker package, versions <3:4.4.1-13.4.rhaos4.14.el8


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PODMANDOCKER-6554621
  • published4 Apr 2024
  • disclosed9 Mar 2024

Introduced: 9 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-28180  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-409  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 podman-docker to version 3:4.4.1-13.4.rhaos4.14.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:2672.

NVD Description

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

Package jose aims to provide an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards. An attacker could send a JWE containing compressed data that used large amounts of memory and CPU when decompressed by Decrypt or DecryptMulti. Those functions now return an error if the decompressed data would exceed 250kB or 10x the compressed size (whichever is larger). This vulnerability has been patched in versions 4.0.1, 3.0.3 and 2.6.3.

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CVSS Scores

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