RHSA-2022:8008 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: buildah security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 16, 2022
Updated · November 1, 2026
Topic
An update for buildah 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 buildah package provides a tool for facilitating building OCI container images. Among other things, buildah enables you to: Create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting point; Create an image, either from a working container or using the instructions in a Dockerfile; Build both Docker and OCI images.
Security Fix(es):
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containers/storage: DoS via malicious image (CVE-2021-20291)
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golang: net: lookup functions may return invalid host names (CVE-2021-33195)
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golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (CVE-2021-33197)
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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)
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golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)
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podman: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2989)
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buildah: possible information disclosure and modification (CVE-2022-2990)
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.