RHSA-2020:5056: Moderate: podman security and bug fix update

First published: Tue Nov 10 2020(Updated: )

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.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> golang.org/x/text: possibility to trigger an infinite loop in encoding/unicode could lead to crash (CVE-2020-14040)</li> <li> podman: environment variables leak between containers when started via Varlink or Docker-compatible REST API (CVE-2020-14370)</li> 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.<br>Bug Fix(es):<br><li> podman does not use $TMPDIR loading a tar file (BZ#1877699)</li>

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