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CVE-2016-9962 Detail

Description

RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes during the initialization and can lead to container escapes or modification of runC state before the process is fully placed inside the container.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0116.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0123.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0127.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/21 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/29 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540001/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95361 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/cve-2016-9962 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1012568#c6 Issue Tracking 
https://github.com/docker/docker/releases/tag/v1.12.6 Vendor Advisory 
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/50a19c6ff828c58e5dab13830bd3dacde268afe5 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQAXJMMLRU7DD2IMG47SR2K4BOFFG7FZ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FINGBFMIXBG6B6ZWYH3TMRP5V3PDBNXR/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UVM7FCOQMPKOFLDTUYSS4ES76DDM56VP/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WUQ3MQNEL5IBZZLMLR72Q4YDCL2SCKRK/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-34 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-9962
NVD Published Date:
01/31/2017
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
MITRE