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GHSA-rpcc-p8xm-rc6p

Podman vulnerable to memory-based denial of service

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2024-3056

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Go github.com/containers/podman/v5 <= 5.2.0 no fix listed
Go github.com/containers/podman <= 5.2.0 no fix listed
Go github.com/containers/podman/v2 <= 5.2.0 no fix listed
Go github.com/containers/podman/v3 <= 5.2.0 no fix listed
Go github.com/containers/podman/v4 <= 5.2.0 no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, when configured to share the same IPC with at least one other container, can create a large number of IPC resources in /dev/shm. The malicious container will continue to exhaust resources until it is out-of-memory (OOM) killed. While the malicious container's cgroup will be removed, the IPC resources it created are not. Those resources are tied to the IPC namespace that will not be removed until all containers using it are stopped, and one non-malicious container is holding the namespace open. The malicious container is restarted, either automatically or by attacker control, repeating the process and increasing the amount of memory consumed. With a container configured to restart always, such as `podman run --restart=always`, this can result in a memory-based denial of service of the system.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.