Information Exposure Affecting runc package, versions <3:1.1.0-2.rhaos4.10.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-RUNC-4405678
  • published10 Dec 2021
  • disclosed9 Dec 2021

Introduced: 9 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-44717  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 runc to version 3:1.1.0-2.rhaos4.10.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:0927.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream runc package and not the runc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Go before 1.16.12 and 1.17.x before 1.17.5 on UNIX allows write operations to an unintended file or unintended network connection as a consequence of erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1