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Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2025-52881: Important priority package update for runc

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 5, 2025
Added
Nov 7, 2025
Modified
Dec 4, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in runc. This attack is a more sophisticated variant of CVE-2019-16884, which was a flaw that allowed an attacker to trick runc into writing the LSM process labels for a container process into a dummy tmpfs file and thus not apply the correct LSM labels to the container process. The mitigation applied for CVE-2019-16884 was fairly limited and effectively only caused runc to verify that when we write LSM labels that those labels are actual procfs files.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-runcamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-runc-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-runc-debugsource
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