ALSA-2024:2548

The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes.

Security Fixes:

• podman: golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON (CVE-2024-24786)
• podman: buildah: full container escape at build time (CVE-2024-1753)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fixes:

• liveness probe not called by podman when using httpGet (JIRA:AlmaLinux-28633)
• Unable to copy image from one virtual machine to another using "podman image scp" (JIRA:AlmaLinux-28629)
• [v4.9] Backport two docker CLI compatibility fixes (JIRA:AlmaLinux-28636)
• Issue in podman causing S2I to fail in overwriting ENTRYPOINT (JIRA:AlmaLinux-14922)
• Need to backport podman fix for SIGSEGV in AlmaLinux 9.3/8.9 for UBI based containers (JIRA:AlmaLinux-26843)