Issued at: 2025-11-28
Updated at: 2025-12-07
Synopsis
Moderate: container-tools:rhel8 security and bug fix update
Description
The container-tools module contains tools for working with containers, notably podman, buildah, skopeo, and runc.
Security Fix(es):
* go-yaml: Improve heuristics preventing CPU/memory abuse by parsing malicious or large YAML documents (CVE-2022-3064)
* golang: html/template: improper handling of JavaScript whitespace (CVE-2023-24540)
* net/http, golang.org/x/net/http2: avoid quadratic complexity in HPACK decoding (CVE-2022-41723)
* golang: crypto/tls: large handshake records may cause panics (CVE-2022-41724)
* golang: net/http, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2022-41725)
* golang.org/x/net/html: Cross site scripting (CVE-2023-3978)
* golang: net/http, net/textproto: denial of service from excessive memory allocation (CVE-2023-24534)
* golang: net/http, net/textproto, mime/multipart: denial of service from excessive resource consumption (CVE-2023-24536)
* golang: go/parser: Infinite loop in parsing (CVE-2023-24537)
* golang: html/template: backticks not treated as string delimiters (CVE-2023-24538)
* golang: html/template: improper sanitization of CSS values (CVE-2023-24539)
* containerd: Supplementary groups are not set up properly (CVE-2023-25173)
* runc: Rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable (CVE-2023-25809)
* runc: volume mount race condition (regression of CVE-2019-19921) (CVE-2023-27561)
* runc: AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount configuration (CVE-2023-28642)
* golang: html/template: improper handling of empty HTML attributes (CVE-2023-29400)
* golang: net/http: insufficient sanitization of Host header (CVE-2023-29406)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.