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openSUSE Security Update : lxc / lxcfs (openSUSE-2019-1275)

high Nessus Plugin ID 124312

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for lxc, lxcfs to version 3.1.0 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2019-5736: Fixed a container breakout vulnerability (boo#1122185).

 - CVE-2018-6556: Enable setuid bit on lxc-user-nic (boo#988348).

Non-security issues fixed :

 - Update to LXC 3.1.0. The changelog is far too long to include here, please look at https://linuxcontainers.org/. (boo#1131762)

Solution

Update the affected lxc / lxcfs packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122185

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1131762

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988348

https://linuxcontainers.org/.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124312

File Name: openSUSE-2019-1275.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/26/2019

Updated: 5/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 10.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5736

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblxc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxcfs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxcfs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pam_cgfs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxcfs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxcfs-hooks-lxc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblxc1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pam_cgfs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:liblxc1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxc-bash-completion

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2018

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Docker Container Escape Via runC Overwrite)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6556, CVE-2019-5736