vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-7851-1 (CVE-2025-31133): runC vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 5, 2025
Added
Nov 6, 2025
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

Lei Wang and Li Fubang discovered that runC incorrectly handled masked
paths. An attacker could possibly replace a container's /dev/null
with a symlink to some other procfs file and possibly escape a container.
(CVE-2025-31133)

Lei Wang and Li Fubang discovered that runC incorrectly handled the
/dev/console bind-mounts. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue
to build-mount a symlink and escape a container. (CVE-2025-52565)

Li Fubang and Tõnis Tiigi discovered that the fix for CVE-2019-16884 was
incomplete. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service or escape the container. (CVE-2025-52881)

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-runcubuntu-upgrade-runc-stable
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