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Medium ALAS2023-2025-1015 1 CVE

Moderate: ecs-init security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jun 4, 2025 · Updated Jun 10, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-40635: containerd is an open-source container runtime. A bug was found in containerd prior to versions 1.6.38, 1.7.27, and 2.0.4 where containers launched with a User set as a `UID:GID` larger than the maximum 32-bit signed integer can cause an overflow condition where the container ultimately runs as root (UID 0). This could cause unexpected behavior for environments that require containers to run as a non-root user. This bug has been fixed in containerd 1.6.38, 1.7.27, and 2.04. As a workaround, ensure that only trusted images are used and that only trusted users have permissions to import images.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 ecs-init 0:1.93.1-1.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 4.6
    CVE-2024-40635 Public exploit

    containerd has an integer overflow in User ID handling

    containerd is an open-source container runtime. A bug was found in containerd prior to versions 1.6.38, 1.7.27, and 2.0.4 where containers launched with a User set as a `UID:GID` larger than the maximum 32-bit signed integer can cause an overflow condition wh…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-40635.html