CVE-2021-20291

CVE Details

Release Date:2021-04-01

Description


A deadlock vulnerability was found in 'github.com/containers/storage' in versions before 1.28.1. When a container image is processed, each layer is unpacked using tar. If one of those layers is not a valid tar archive this causes an error leading to an unexpected situation where the code indefinitely waits for the tar unpacked stream, which never finishes. An attacker could use this vulnerability to craft a malicious image, which when downloaded and stored by an application using containers/storage, would then cause a deadlock leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).

See more information about CVE-2021-20291 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


CVSS v3.0 metrics


NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score: 6.5 Base Metrics: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Access Vector: Network Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None User Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged Confidentiality Impact: None
Integrity Impact: None Availability Impact: High

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 8 (buildah)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (cockpit-podman)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (conmon)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (container-selinux)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (containernetworking-plugins)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (containers-common)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (criu)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (crun)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (fuse-overlayfs)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (libslirp)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (oci-seccomp-bpf-hook)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (podman)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (python-podman)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (runc)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (skopeo)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (slirp4netns)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (udica)ELSA-2021-41542021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 9 (buildah)ELSA-2022-80082022-11-22
Oracle Linux version 9 (podman)ELSA-2022-79542022-11-22
Oracle Linux version 9 (skopeo)ELSA-2022-79552022-11-22



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