RHEL7 Podman Missing CVE-2020-8945 Fix Causing GPG Verify Crash/Exec (Go GPGME)
CVE-2022-2738 Published on September 1, 2022
The version of podman as released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras via RHSA-2022:2190 advisory included an incorrect version of podman missing the fix for CVE-2020-8945, which was previously fixed via RHSA-2020:2117. This issue could possibly be used to crash or cause potential code execution in Go applications that use the Go GPGME wrapper library, under certain conditions, during GPG signature verification.
Weakness Type
What is a Dangling pointer Vulnerability?
Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.
CVE-2022-2738 has been classified to as a Dangling pointer vulnerability or weakness.
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