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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-27561: Security patch for runc (Multiple Advisories)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-27561: Security patch for runc (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/03/2023
Created
06/07/2023
Added
06/07/2023
Modified
07/14/2023

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)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-runc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-runc-debuginfo

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