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Medium ALAS2023-2026-3168 1 CVE

Moderate: containerd security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Oct 12, 2026 · Updated Oct 12, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-53495: containerd is an open-source container runtime. Prior to 1.7.35, 2.0.12, 2.2.8, and 2.3.5, containerd on Linux with the CRI plugin enabled can indefinitely block the drainExecSyncIO goroutine in internal/cri/server/container_execsync.go when CRI ExecSync is used by exec probes or lifecycle hooks that launch long-lived background child processes retaining standard input and output pipes. The input and output drain phase has no default timeout and did not stop when the request context was canceled, so repeated ExecSync invocations can accumulate blocked goroutines and host memory. The resulting resource exhaustion can cause the OOM killer to terminate containerd, leaving the container runtime unavailable until restart. Deployments not using containerd's CRI implementation and containers not running on Linux are not affected. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.35, 2.0.12, 2.2.8, and 2.3.5.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 containerd 0:2.3.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 containerd-debuginfo 0:2.3.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 containerd-debugsource 0:2.3.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 containerd-stress 0:2.3.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 containerd-stress-debuginfo 0:2.3.5-1.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.8

    containerd CRI ExecSync Goroutine Leak Leading to Node-Level Denial of Service

    containerd is an open-source container runtime. Prior to 1.7.35, 2.0.12, 2.2.8, and 2.3.5, containerd on Linux with the CRI plugin enabled can indefinitely block the drainExecSyncIO goroutine in internal/cri/server/container_execsync.go when CRI ExecSync is u…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-53495.html