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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-27561): runC vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-27561): runC vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/03/2023
Created
05/19/2023
Added
05/19/2023
Modified
05/24/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-runc

References

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