Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation Affecting skopeo-tests package, versions <2:1.8.0-5.rhaos4.12.el9


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-SKOPEOTESTS-3563942
  • published 15 Jul 2022
  • disclosed 12 Jul 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 skopeo-tests to version 2:1.8.0-5.rhaos4.12.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:7398.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream skopeo-tests package and not the skopeo-tests package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Uncontrolled recursion in Reader.Read in compress/gzip before Go 1.17.12 and Go 1.18.4 allows an attacker to cause a panic due to stack exhaustion via an archive containing a large number of concatenated 0-length compressed files.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

7.5 high
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SUSE

6.2 medium