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GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2019-68

GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2019-68
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published July 20, 2019
Not using pivot_root(2) leaves the host /proc around in the mount namespace so that it is possible to mount another /proc without any other submount, even if /proc in the container is not fully visible. This flaw allows an attacker to read and modify some parts of the Linux kernel memory (rhbz#1663068). runc through 1.0-rc6 allows attackers to overwrite the host runc binary (and consequently obtain host root access) by leveraging the ability to execute a command as root within one of these types of containers: a new container with an attacker-controlled image, or an existing container, to which the attacker previously had write access, that can be attached with docker exec. This occurs because of file-descriptor mishandling, related to /proc/self/exe (CVE-2019-5736).

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiakernel-userspace-headers0 (affected), 5.1.18-1.mga7 (unaffected)
Mageiakmod-xtables-addons0 (affected), 3.3-55.mga7 (unaffected)
Mageiakernel0 (affected), 5.1.18-1.mga7 (unaffected)
Mageiawireguard-tools0 (affected), 0.0.20190702-1.mga7 (unaffected)
Mageiaopencontainers-runc0 (affected), 1.0.0rc5-3.2.mga6 (unaffected), 0 (affected), 1.0.0rc5-3.2.mga6 (unaffected)
Mageiakmod-virtualbox0 (affected), 6.0.8-25.mga7 (unaffected)

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