RHSA-2020:5056MediumCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: podman security and bug fix update

Published
November 10, 2020
Last Modified
August 15, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

📋 Description

CVE-2020-14040 — golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash CVE-2020-14370 — podman: environment variables leak between containers when started via Varlink or Docker-compatible REST API

🎯 Affected products9

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
  • podman-0:1.6.4-26.el7_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
  • podman-0:1.6.4-26.el7_9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
  • podman-0:1.6.4-26.el7_9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
  • podman-0:1.6.4-26.el7_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
  • podman-debuginfo-0:1.6.4-26.el7_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
  • podman-debuginfo-0:1.6.4-26.el7_9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
  • podman-debuginfo-0:1.6.4-26.el7_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
  • podman-docker-0:1.6.4-26.el7_9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (6)