CVE-2024-9676 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2024-9676: A vulnerability was found in Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O. A symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Podman, Buildah, and CRI-O to hang and result in a denial of service via OOM kill when running a malicious image using an automatically assigned user namespace (`--u

Affects 4 Linux releases across 7 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2024-9676 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

golang-github-containers-storage→ fixed in1.55.1+ds1-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y golang-github-containers-storage
```

Alpine v3.20

Source: Alpine secdb

buildah→ fixed in1.37.5-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade buildah
```
podman→ fixed in5.2.5-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade podman
```

Alpine v3.21

Source: Alpine secdb

buildah→ fixed in1.37.5-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade buildah
```
podman→ fixed in5.2.5-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade podman
```

Alpine edge

Source: Alpine secdb

buildah→ fixed in1.37.5-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade buildah
```
podman→ fixed in5.2.5-r0
```
apk update && apk add --upgrade podman
```

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