Bug 2558105 (CVE-2026-114236)

Summary: CVE-2026-114236 podman: Goroutine/file-descriptor leak in storage/pkg/archive.ApplyLayer and ApplyUncompressedLayer on malformed layers
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storage/pkg/archive.ApplyLayer and ApplyUncompressedLayer may, when processing corrupt or malicious inputs, leak a file descriptor; unbounded repeated calls can exhaust the process’ file descriptor limit
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-21 06:43:52 UTC
Goroutine/file-descriptor leak in storage/pkg/archiveApplyLayer/ApplyUncompressedLayer on malformed layers

storage/pkg/archive.ApplyLayer and ApplyUncompressedLayer may, when
processing corrupt or malicious inputs, leak a file descriptor;
unbounded repeated calls can exhaust the process’ file descriptor
limit.