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Mageia 9 MGASA-2025-0004: Critical runc Filesystem Issue Fixed

mageia
Calendar Grey January 10, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
New patches for opencontainers-runc packages have been issued to mitigate severe filesystem security vulnerabilities in Mageia.
runc 1.1.13 and earlier as well as 1.2.0-rc2 and earlier can be tricked into creating empty files or directories in arbitrary locations in the host filesystem by sharing a volume b...

Summary

runc 1.1.13 and earlier as well as 1.2.0-rc2 and earlier can be tricked into creating empty files or directories in arbitrary locations in the host filesystem by sharing a volume between two containers and exploiting a race with os.MkdirAll. While this can be used to create empty files, existing files **will not** be truncated. An attacker must have the ability to start containers using some kind of custom volume configuration. Containers using user namespaces are still affected, but the scope of places an attacker can create inodes can be significantly reduced. Sufficiently strict LSM policies (SELinux/Apparmor) can also in principle block this attack -- we suspect the industry standard SELinux policy may restrict this attack's scope but the exact scope of protection hasn't been analysed. This is exploitable using runc directly as well as through Docker and Kubernetes.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33519

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/03/1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45310

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/opencontainers-runc-1.1.14-1.mga9

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Publication date: 10 Jan 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0004.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-45310

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