RHSA-2022:7955 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: skopeo security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 15, 2022
Updated · October 23, 2026
Topic
An update for skopeo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The skopeo command lets you inspect images from container image registries, get images and image layers, and use signatures to create and verify files.
Security Fix(es):
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containers/storage: DoS via malicious image (CVE-2021-20291)
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golang: math/big.Rat: may cause a panic or an unrecoverable fatal error if passed inputs with very large exponents (CVE-2021-33198)
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.