It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-079 advisory.

  - containerd is a container runtime available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. A bug was found in     containerd prior to versions 1.6.1, 1.5.10, and 1.14.12 where containers launched through containerd's CRI     implementation on Linux with a specially-crafted image configuration could gain access to read-only copies     of arbitrary files and directories on the host. This may bypass any policy-based enforcement on container     setup (including a Kubernetes Pod Security Policy) and expose potentially sensitive information.
    Kubernetes and crictl can both be configured to use containerd's CRI implementation. This bug has been     fixed in containerd 1.6.1, 1.5.10, and 1.4.12. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue.
    (CVE-2022-23648)

  - Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable and accelerate software containerization. A bug     was found in Moby (Docker Engine) prior to version 20.10.14 where containers were incorrectly started with     non-empty inheritable Linux process capabilities, creating an atypical Linux environment and enabling     programs with inheritable file capabilities to elevate those capabilities to the permitted set during     `execve(2)`. Normally, when executable programs have specified permitted file capabilities, otherwise     unprivileged users and processes can execute those programs and gain the specified file capabilities up to     the bounding set. Due to this bug, containers which included executable programs with inheritable file     capabilities allowed otherwise unprivileged users and processes to additionally gain these inheritable     file capabilities up to the container's bounding set. Containers which use Linux users and groups to     perform privilege separation inside the container are most directly impacted. This bug did not affect the     container security sandbox as the inheritable set never contained more capabilities than were included in     the container's bounding set. This bug has been fixed in Moby (Docker Engine) 20.10.14. Running containers     should be stopped, deleted, and recreated for the inheritable capabilities to be reset. This fix changes     Moby (Docker Engine) behavior such that containers are started with a more typical Linux environment. As a     workaround, the entry point of a container can be modified to use a utility like `capsh(1)` to drop     inheritable capabilities prior to the primary process starting. (CVE-2022-24769)

  - containerd is an open source container runtime. A bug was found in the containerd's CRI implementation     where programs inside a container can cause the containerd daemon to consume memory without bound during     invocation of the `ExecSync` API. This can cause containerd to consume all available memory on the     computer, denying service to other legitimate workloads. Kubernetes and crictl can both be configured to     use containerd's CRI implementation; `ExecSync` may be used when running probes or when executing     processes via an exec facility. This bug has been fixed in containerd 1.6.6 and 1.5.13. Users should     update to these versions to resolve the issue. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that only trusted     images and commands are used. (CVE-2022-31030)

  - Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable software containerization. A bug was found in     Moby (Docker Engine) where supplementary groups are not set up properly. If an attacker has direct access     to a container and manipulates their supplementary group access, they may be able to use supplementary     group access to bypass primary group restrictions in some cases, potentially gaining access to sensitive     information or gaining the ability to execute code in that container. This bug is fixed in Moby (Docker     Engine) 20.10.18. Running containers should be stopped and restarted for the permissions to be fixed. For     users unable to upgrade, this problem can be worked around by not using the `USER $USERNAME` Dockerfile     instruction. Instead by calling `ENTRYPOINT [su, -, user]` the supplementary groups will be set up     properly. (CVE-2022-36109)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2023 : containerd, containerd-stress (ALAS2023-2023-079)

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