Debian dsa-5615 : golang-github-opencontainers-runc-dev - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 189981

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5615 advisory.

- runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In runc 1.1.11 and earlier, due to an internal file descriptor leak, an attacker could cause a newly-spawned container process (from runc exec) to have a working directory in the host filesystem namespace, allowing for a container escape by giving access to the host filesystem (attack 2). The same attack could be used by a malicious image to allow a container process to gain access to the host filesystem through runc run (attack 1). Variants of attacks 1 and 2 could be also be used to overwrite semi-arbitrary host binaries, allowing for complete container escapes (attack 3a and attack 3b). runc 1.1.12 includes patches for this issue. (CVE-2024-21626)

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

Solution

Upgrade the golang-github-opencontainers-runc-dev packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189981

File Name: debian_DSA-5615.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/4/2024

Updated: 2/10/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-21626

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 8

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:runc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:golang-github-opencontainers-runc-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (runc (docker) File Descriptor Leak Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-21626

IAVA: 2024-A-0071

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