RHSA-2024:3830 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: gvisor-tap-vsock security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · June 12, 2024
Updated · November 1, 2026
Topic
An update for gvisor-tap-vsock 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
A replacement for libslirp and VPNKit, written in pure Go. It is based on the network stack of gVisor and is used to provide networking for podman-machine virtual machines. Compared to libslirp, gvisor-tap-vsock brings a configurable DNS server and dynamic port forwarding.
Security Fix(es):
- golang: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm (CVE-2023-45290)