Security update for podman
This update for podman fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2026-55686: Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability (bsc#1268579). - CVE-2026-57231: specially crafted image can trick podman run into leaking host environment variables into the container (bsc#1269471). Non security issue fixed: - catatonit missing in /usr/libexec/podman/ (bsc#1248988).
- Products
- podman
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.4.2-160000.6.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-55686, CVE-2026-57231
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
This update for podman fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2026-55686: Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability (bsc#1268579). - CVE-2026-57231: specially crafted image can trick podman run into leaking host environment variables into the container (bsc#1269471). Non security issue fixed: - catatonit missing in /usr/libexec/podman/ (bsc#1248988).
osv:SUSE-SU-2026:24233-1
podman
Fixed versions: 5.4.2-160000.6.1
podman
Fixed versions: 5.4.2-160000.6.1
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2026%3A24233-1",
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"modified": "2026-10-21T17:23:11.444313238Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
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"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248988",
"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1268579",
"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1269471",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 397563,
"published_at": "2026-10-12T08:48:41+00:00"
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