Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-6187-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: gvisor-tap-vsock security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:6187-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6187
Issue date: 2024-09-03
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-24783
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Summary:

An update for gvisor-tap-vsock is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description:

A replacement for libslirp and VPNKit, written in pure Go. It is based on the network stack of gVisor and is used to provide networking for podman-machine virtual machines. Compared to libslirp, gvisor-tap-vsock brings a configurable DNS server and dynamic port forwarding.

Security Fix(es):

* golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm (CVE-2024-24783)

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.

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2024-24783

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268019