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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : containerd vulnerabilities (USN-6202-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178000

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6202-1 advisory.

 David Korczynski and Adam Korczynski discovered that containerd incorrectly processed certain images with large files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause containerd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-25153)

 It was discovered that containerd incorrectly set up supplementary groups inside a container. An attacker with direct access to the container could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or execute code with higher privileges. (CVE-2023-25173)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected containerd and / or golang-github-containerd-containerd-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6202-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178000

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6202-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/5/2023

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25173

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-github-containerd-containerd-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:containerd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25153, CVE-2023-25173

IAVA: 2023-A-0526

USN: 6202-1