RHSA-2024:6187 — Security Advisory

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.

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: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm (CVE-2024-24783)

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.