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Gentoo: GLSA 202408-02 Critical: Containerd Security Vulnerability Detected

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2024
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Critical alert issued for containerd on Gentoo Linux. Upgrade to 1.6.19 to address potential privilege elevation vulnerabilities.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in containerd, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in containerd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo software update privilege escalation containerd

Resolution

All containerd users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-containers/containerd-1.6.19"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2023-25153 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25153 [ 2 ] CVE-2023-25173 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25173

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202408-01
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: containerd: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: August 06, 2024
Bugs: #897960
ID: 202408-01

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo software update privilege escalation containerd

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in containerd, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Background

containerd is a daemon with an API and a command line client, to manage containers on one machine. It uses runC to run containers according to the OCI specification.

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected ------------------------- ------------ ------------ app-containers/containerd < 1.6.19 >= 1.6.19

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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