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Debian: CVE-2023-27561: runc -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2023-27561: runc -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/03/2023
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/29/2023
Modified
03/29/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-runc

References

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