Bug 2121445 (CVE-2022-2989)

Summary:	CVE-2022-2989 podman: possible information disclosure and modification
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ajak, bbaude, dwalsh, jburrell, jligon, jnovy, lsm5, mboddu, mheon, pthomas, steven, tsweeney, umohnani, vkumar
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Podman container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2022-12-06 18:16:14 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2121533, 2121538, 2121539, 2121540, 2121541, 2121542, 2126485, 2136268
Bug Blocks:	2121446, 2121448

Description Marian Rehak 2022-08-25 13:30:08 UTC

An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Podman container engine might lead to the sensitive information disclosure or possible data
modification if an attacker has direct access to the affected container where supplementary groups are used to set access permissions and is able to execute a binary code in that container.

Reference:

https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2022/08/22/vulnerability-in-linux-containers-investigation-and-mitigation/

Comment 3 John Helmert III 2022-09-19 20:06:38 UTC

Looks like the patch is: https://github.com/containers/podman/commit/5c7f28336171f0a5137edd274e45608120d31289

Seems unreleased.

Comment 4 Jindrich Novy 2022-09-20 08:30:50 UTC

John, it's been replaced with https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/15696 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121542#c4

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 11:30:42 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:7822 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7822

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 09:57:39 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2022:8008 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8008

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 15:59:16 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2022:8431 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8431

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-06 18:16:12 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-2989

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 08:14:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:2802 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2802