It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-501 advisory.

    2024-02-01: CVE-2023-39326 was added to this advisory.

    A malicious HTTP sender can use chunk extensions to cause a receiver reading from a request or response     body to read many more bytes from the network than are in the body. A malicious HTTP client can further     exploit this to cause a server to automatically read a large amount of data (up to about 1GiB) when a     handler fails to read the entire body of a request. Chunk extensions are a little-used HTTP feature which     permit including additional metadata in a request or response body sent using the chunked encoding. The     net/http chunked encoding reader discards this metadata. A sender can exploit this by inserting a large     metadata segment with each byte transferred. The chunk reader now produces an error if the ratio of real     body to encoded bytes grows too small. (CVE-2023-39326)

    AWS is aware of CVE-2024-21626, an issue affecting the runc component of several open source container     management systems. Under certain conditions, an actor could leverage a specially crafted container or     container configuration to access files or directories outside the container's file system namespace.

    An updated version of runc that addresses the issue is available for Amazon Linux 1     (runc-1.1.11-1.0.amzn1), Amazon Linux 2 (runc-1.1.11-1.amzn2) and for Amazon Linux 2023     (runc-1.1.11-1.amzn2023). AWS recommends that customers using runc or any container-related software apply     those updates or a newer version. (CVE-2024-21626)

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

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 : runc (ALAS2023-2024-501)

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