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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : containerd vulnerability (USN-7374-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 233370

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7374-1 advisory.

 Benjamin Koltermann discovered that containerd incorrectly handled large user id values. This could result in containers possibly being run as root, contrary to expectations.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-7374-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 233370

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7374-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2025

Updated: 3/26/2025

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: 4.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-40635

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-github-containerd-containerd-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:containerd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/17/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-40635

USN: 7374-1