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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-14891: cri-o: infra container reparented to systemd following OOM Killer killing it's conmon

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-14891: cri-o: infra container reparented to systemd following OOM Killer killing it's conmon

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/25/2019
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

A flaw was found in cri-o, as a result of all pod-related processes being placed in the same memory cgroup. This can result in container management (conmon) processes being killed if a workload process triggers an out-of-memory (OOM) condition for the cgroup. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get host network access on an cri-o host.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-o

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