Bug 2121453 (CVE-2022-2990)

Summary:	CVE-2022-2990 buildah: 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:	dwalsh, jburrell, jnovy, lsm5, mboddu, nalin, 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 Buildah 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 18:32:53 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2121529, 2121530, 2121531, 2121532, 2121533, 2125646, 2126233, 2136297
Bug Blocks:	2121454, 2121455

Description Marian Rehak 2022-08-25 13:58:09 UTC

An incorrect handling of the supplementary groups in the Buildah 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 Przemyslaw Roguski 2022-08-25 18:34:38 UTC

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/containers/buildah/pull/4200

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 09:12:10 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:7457 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7457

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-08 11:30:44 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 7 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 09:57:42 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 8 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 15:59:17 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 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-12-06 18:32:51 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-2022-2990

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-17 22:53:37 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13

Via RHSA-2023:1325 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1325