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containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory

Published May 27, 2021

Description

A malicious container image can consume an unbounded amount of memory when being pulled to a container runtime host, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux using podman, or OpenShift Container Platform. An attacker can use this flaw to trick a user, with privileges to pull container images, into crashing the process responsible for pulling the image. This flaw affects containers-image versions before 5.2.0.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published May 27, 2021
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Nov 27, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Jan 20, 2020