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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-9962: runC: Privilege escalation

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 31, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

An attacker, who is able to successfully escape the container or modify
runC’s state before process initialization, could escalate privileges.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-runc

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