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vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9962: docker insecure opening of file-descriptor allows privilege escalation

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 31, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes during the initialization and can lead to container escapes or modification of runC state before the process is fully placed inside the container.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-docker
Title
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