Advisories for Golang/Github.com/Containers/Podman/V5 package

2024

Improper Input Validation in Buildah and Podman

A vulnerability exists in the bind-propagation option of the Dockerfile RUN –mount instruction. The system does not properly validate the input passed to this option, allowing users to pass arbitrary parameters to the mount instruction. This issue can be exploited to mount sensitive directories from the host into a container during the build process and, in some cases, modify the contents of those mounted files. Even if SELinux is used, …

Podman vulnerable to memory-based denial of service

A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, when configured to share the same IPC with at least one other container, can create a large number of IPC resources in /dev/shm. The malicious container will continue to exhaust resources until it is out-of-memory (OOM) killed. While the malicious container's cgroup will be removed, the IPC resources it created are …