RHSA-2024:4379 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: gvisor-tap-vsock security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2024:4379 — Red Hat Security Advisory: gvisor-tap-vsock security update | PulseLinux