Red Hat Security Advisory: runc security and bug fix update
An update for runc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2016-9962US | medium6.4 | — | ||
RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to ga… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
remediations (4)
- Fixedrunc-0:1.0.0-1.rc2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0127 - Fixedrunc-0:1.0.0-1.rc2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0127 - Workaroundrunc-0:1.0.0-1.rc2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
On Red Hat systems with SELinux enabled, the dangers of even privileged containers are mitigated. SELinux prevents container processes from accessing host content even if those container processes manage to gain access to the actual file descriptors.
- Workaroundrunc-0:1.0.0-1.rc2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras
On Red Hat systems with SELinux enabled, the dangers of even privileged containers are mitigated. SELinux prevents container processes from accessing host content even if those container processes manage to gain access to the actual file descriptors.
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