Bug 1592166 – CVE-2018-10856 podman: Containers run as non-root users do not drop capabilities

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Bug 1592166 - (CVE-2018-10856) CVE-2018-10856 podman: Containers run as non-root users do not drop capabilities

Summary:	CVE-2018-10856 podman: Containers run as non-root users do not drop capabilities

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-10856

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1594309 1584429 1592167
Blocks:	1592169
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Reported:	2018-06-17 20:39 EDT by Sam Fowler
Modified:	2018-07-10 13:55 EDT (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	podman 0.6.1
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Doc Text:	It has been discovered that podman does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container.
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:2037	None	None	None	2018-06-26 14:40 EDT

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Description Sam Fowler 2018-06-17 20:39:22 EDT

Podman before version 0.6.1 does not drop capabilities when executing a container as a non-root user. This results in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container.

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-06-17 20:39:46 EDT

Created podman tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1592167]

Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2018-06-22 11:31:02 EDT

Patch:
https://github.com/projectatomic/libpod/commit/bae80a0b663925ec751ad2784ca32989403cdc24

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-26 14:40:19 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras

Via RHSA-2018:2037 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2037

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