SB2022111439 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 update for the container-tools:rhel8 module
Published: November 14, 2022
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36221)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in net/http/httputil ReverseProxy when handling ErrAbortHandler events. A remote attacker can trigger a race condition and crash the ReverseProxy.
2) Type Confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-41190)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error. A remote authenticated attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a type confusion error and interpret the resulting content differently.
3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1708)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the ExecSync request. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
4) Incorrect authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2990)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah container engine. A local user with direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used can set access permissions and execute a binary code in that container.5) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-27191)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh before 0.0.0-20220314234659-1baeb1ce4c0b, as used in Go programming language. A remote attacker can crash a server in certain circumstances involving AddHostKey.
6) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29162)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to containers are incorrectly started with non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.