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OpenSUSE: 2024:0244-1 Important Advisory Addressing Apptainer Threats

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2024
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The Fedora project releases a significant Podman security patch tackling four urgent vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for apptainer fixes the following issues:

- Make sure, digest values handled by the Go library

github.com/opencontainers/go-digest and used throughout the

Go-implemented containers ecosystem are always validated. This prevents

attackers from triggering unexpected authenticated registry accesses.

(CVE-2024-3727, boo#1224114).

- Updated apptainer to version 1.3.0

* FUSE mounts are now supported in setuid mode, enabling full

functionality even when kernel filesystem mounts are insecure due to

unprivileged users having write access to raw filesystems in

containers. When allow `setuid-mount extfs = no` (the default) in

apptainer.conf, then the fuse2fs image driver will be used to mount

ext3 images in setuid mode instead of the kernel driver (ext3 images

are primarily used for the `--overlay` feature), restoring

functionality that was removed by default in Apptainer 1.1.8 because

of the...

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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-SP5:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2024-244=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libsquashfuse0-0.5.0-bp155.2.1

libsquashfuse0-debuginfo-0.5.0-bp155.2.1

squashfuse-0.5.0-bp155.2.1

squashfuse-debuginfo-0.5.0-bp155.2.1

squashfuse-debugsource-0.5.0-bp155.2.1

squashfuse-devel-0.5.0-bp155.2.1

squashfuse-tools-0.5.0-bp155.2.1

squashfuse-tools-debuginfo-0.5.0-bp155.2.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (aarch64 x86_64):

apptainer-1.3.0-bp155.3.3.2

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (noarch):

apptainer-leap-1.3.0-bp155.3.3.2

apptainer-sle15_5-1.3.0-bp155.3.3.2

apptainer-sle15_6-1.3.0-bp155.3.3.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-30549.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38496.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3727.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221364

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1224114

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2024:0244-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 .

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