SB2022081835 - SUSE update for podman

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1227)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper privilege management when running podman top on a container made from a maliciously-crafted image and using a user namespace. An attacker with full access to the container can execute arbitrary code  in the host context.

2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-21698)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within method label cardinality. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

3) 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.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2022/suse-su-20222839-1/