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CVE-2022-2738

podman: Security regression of CVE-2020-8945 due to source code management issue

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 19, 2022

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

The version of podman as released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras via RHSA-2022:2190 advisory included an incorrect version of podman missing the fix for CVE-2020-8945, which was previously fixed via RHSA-2020:2117. This issue could possibly be used to crash or cause potential code execution in Go applications that use the Go GPGME wrapper library, under certain conditions, during GPG signature verification.

Statement

This issue only affects a single version of podman, 1.6.4-32.el7_9, shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras. Both earlier and later versions are not affected.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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