vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-9962): runc vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 31, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes during the initialization and can lead to container escapes or modification of runC state before the process is fully placed inside the container.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-docker-ioubuntu-upgrade-runc
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