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CVE-2026-79699

Podman: buildah: skopeo: containers/storage: malicious tar whiteout header allows replacement of extraction destination directory PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A flaw was found in the containers/storage library. A crafted tar archive containing a malicious whiteout header (e.g. victim/.wh.) can cause the extraction destination directory to be replaced with an arbitrary file when processed by storage/pkg/archive.UnpackLayer, ApplyLayer, or ApplyUncompressedLayer.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Hardened Imagesunaffected
Red Hat / Red Hat Hardened Imagesunaffected
Red Hat / Red Hat Hardened Imagesunaffected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4affected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4affected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spacesaffected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spacesaffected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spacesaffected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Quay 3affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Quay 3affected

CWE

CWE-59

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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