RHSA-2024:4379 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: gvisor-tap-vsock security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · July 8, 2024
Updated · October 31, 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 Important. 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-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA payloads (CVE-2024-1394)
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.