CVE-2022-2738

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-09-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

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.

Affected products

podman: 1.6.4-32.el7_9
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2738
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116923
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2738
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116923

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