Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:7818-01 (containernetworking-plugins)

An update for containernetworking-plugins is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The Container Network Interface (CNI) project consists of a specification and
libraries for writing plug-ins for configuring network interfaces in Linux
containers, along with a number of supported plug-ins. CNI concerns itself
only with network connectivity of containers and removing allocated resources
when the container is deleted. 

Security Fix(es):

* encoding/gob: golang: Calling Decoder.Decode on a message which contains
deeply nested structures can cause a panic due to stack exhaustion
(CVE-2024-34156)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

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