vulnerability

Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2023-6476: cri-o: Pods are able to break out of resource confinement on cgroupv2

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 9, 2024
Added
Jan 18, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in CRI-O that involves an experimental annotation leading to a container being unconfined. This may allow a pod to specify and get any amount of memory/cpu, circumventing the kubernetes scheduler and potentially resulting in a denial of service in the node.

Solution

linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-o
Title
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