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🛡️ ALSA-2022:7954 — podman (CVE-2020-28851 +7 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Moderate: podman security and bug fix update

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 Fix(es):

  • golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing -u- extension (CVE-2020-28851)
  • golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing bcp47 tag (CVE-2020-28852)
  • podman: podman machine spawns gvproxy with port bound to all IPs (CVE-2021-4024)
  • podman: Remote traffic to rootless containers is seen as orginating from localhost (CVE-2021-20199)
  • containers/storage: DoS via malicious image (CVE-2021-20291)
  • golang: net/http/httputil: ReverseProxy forwards connection headers if first one is empty (CVE-2021-33197)
  • golang: crypto/tls: certificate of wrong type is causing TLS client to panic (CVE-2021-34558)
  • golang: crash in a golang.org/x/crypto/ssh server (CVE-2022-27191)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Affected software

ALSA-2022:7954 is recorded against 6 packages.

  • podman (fixed in 2:4.2.0-3.el9)
  • podman-docker (fixed in 2:4.2.0-3.el9)
  • podman-gvproxy (fixed in 2:4.2.0-3.el9)
  • podman-plugins (fixed in 2:4.2.0-3.el9)
  • podman-remote (fixed in 2:4.2.0-3.el9)
  • podman-tests (fixed in 2:4.2.0-3.el9)

Timeline and source

Published on 15 November 2022 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

access.redhat.com (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

podman has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-11-15
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
podman 2:4.2.0-3.el9
podman-docker 2:4.2.0-3.el9
podman-gvproxy 2:4.2.0-3.el9
podman-plugins 2:4.2.0-3.el9
podman-remote 2:4.2.0-3.el9
podman-tests 2:4.2.0-3.el9

References

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