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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-27561: Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-27561: Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/03/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

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)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-runc

References

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