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openSUSE 2019:0170-1 Important: runc Security Update Details

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important openSUSE upgrade tackles various runc security flaws and boosts protective features for handling containers.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for runc fixes the following issues:

Security vulnerabilities addressed:

- CVE-2019-5736: Effectively copying /proc/self/exe during re-exec to

avoid write attacks to the host runc binary, which could lead to a

container breakout (bsc#1121967)

- CVE-2018-16873: Fix a remote command execution during "go get -u"

(boo#1118897)

- CVE-2018-16874: Fix a directory traversal in "go get" via curly braces

in import paths (boo#1118898)

- CVE-2018-16875: Fix a CPU denial of service issue (boo#1118899)

Other changes and bug fixes:

- Update go requirements to >= go1.10

- Create a symlink in /usr/bin/runc to enable rootless Podman and Buildah.

- Make use of %license macro

- Remove 'go test' from %check section, as it has only ever caused us

problems and hasn't (as far as I remember) ever caught a

release-blocking issue. Smoke testing has been far more useful.

(boo#1095817)

- Upgrade to runc v1.0.0~rc6. Upstream...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-170=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

runc-1.0.0~rc6-bp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (noarch):

runc-test-1.0.0~rc6-bp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16873.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16874.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16875.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5736.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1095817

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1118897

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1118898

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1118899

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1121967

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0170-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15 le.

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