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High ALAS2023-2023-208 3 CVEs

Important: runc security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jun 7, 2023 · Updated Jun 12, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-28642: runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. It was found that AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount configuration. This issue has been fixed in runc version 1.1.5, by prohibiting symlinked `/proc`. See PR #3785 for details. users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid using an untrusted container image. CVE-2023-27561: runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression. CVE-2023-25809: runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected versions it was found that rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable in following conditons: 1. when runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the `config.json` does not specify the cgroup namespace to be unshared (e.g.., `(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=host`, with Rootless Docker/Podman/nerdctl) or 2. when runc is executed outside the user namespace, and `/sys` is mounted with `rbind, ro` (e.g., `runc spec --rootless`; this condition is very rare). A container may gain the write access to user-owned cgroup hierarchy `/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/...` on the host . Other users's cgroup hierarchies are not affected. Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.1.5. Users unable to upgrade may unshare the cgroup namespace (`(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private)`. This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl on cgroup v2 hosts. or add `/sys/fs/cgroup` to `maskedPaths`.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 runc 0:1.1.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 runc-debuginfo 0:1.1.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 runc-debugsource 0:1.1.5-1.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.0

    Opencontainers runc Incorrect Authorization vulnerability

    runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom …

  • Medium 6.1

    AppArmor bypass with symlinked /proc in runc

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. It was found that AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount configuration. This issue has been fixed in runc version…

  • Medium 5.0

    rootless: `/sys/fs/cgroup` is writable when cgroupns isn't unshared in runc

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected versions it was found that rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable in following conditons: 1. when runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-25809.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-27561.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-28642.html