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High RHSA-2024:0717 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: runc security update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Oct 16, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · Rhel Extras Other 7 rhel_extras_other:7 runc 0:1.0.0-70.rc10.el7_9
Red Hat · Rhel Extras Other 7 rhel_extras_other:7 runc-debuginfo 0:1.0.0-70.rc10.el7_9

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.6
    CVE-2024-21626 Public exploit EPSS 19%

    runc container breakout through process.cwd trickery and leaked fds

    runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. 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 worki…

    opencontainers runc zot kubescape Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi Go

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2024-001
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258725
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_0717.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-21626
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21626
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21626
  • article
    https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/security/advisories/GHSA-xr7r-f8xq-vfvv