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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0717-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0717-03 - An update for runc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.
The following advisory data is extracted from:https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_0717.jsonRed Hat officially shut down their mailing list notifications October 10, 2023. Due to this, Packet Storm has recreated the below data as a reference point to raise awareness. It must be noted that due to an inability to easily track revision updates without crawling Red Hat's archive, these advisories are single notifications and we strongly suggest that you visit the Red Hat provided links to ensure you have the latest information available if the subject matter listed pertains to your environment.- Packet Storm Staff====================================================================Red Hat Security AdvisorySynopsis: Important: runc security updateAdvisory ID: RHSA-2024:0717-03Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ExtrasAdvisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0717Issue date: 2024-02-07Revision: 03CVE Names: CVE-2024-21626====================================================================Summary: 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 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.Description:The runC tool is a lightweight, portable implementation of the Open Container Format (OCF) that provides container runtime.Security Fix(es):* runc: file descriptor leak (CVE-2024-21626)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.Solution:https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258CVEs:CVE-2024-21626References:https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#importanthttps://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2024-001https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258725Related news
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### Impact In runc 1.1.11 and earlier, due to an internal file descriptor leak, an attacker could cause a newly-spawned container process (from `runc exec`) to have a working directory in the host filesystem namespace, allowing for a container escape by giving access to the host filesystem ("attack 2"). The same attack could be used by a malicious image to allow a container process to gain access to the host filesystem through `runc run` ("attack 1"). Variants of attacks 1 and 2 could be also be used to overwrite semi-arbitrary host binaries, allowing for complete container escapes ("attack 3a" and "attack 3b"). Strictly speaking, while attack 3a is the most severe from a CVSS perspective, attacks 2 and 3b are arguably more dangerous in practice because they allow for a breakout from inside a container as opposed to requiring a user execute a malicious image. The reason attacks 1 and 3a are scored higher is because being able to socially engineer users is treated as a given for UI:R ...
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