Re: Docker 1.12.6 - Security Advisory

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

Can you post a link to a patch for this issue, or to a bug entry with
additional details, or the download site at a minimum? Thanks!

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Nathan McCauley <nathan.mccauley () docker com
> wrote:

> Docker Engine version 1.12.6 has been released to address a vulnerability
> and is immediately available for all supported platforms. Users are advised
> to upgrade existing installations of the Docker Engine and use 1.12.6 for
> new installations.
>
> Please send any questions to security () docker com.
>
>
> ==============================================================
> [CVE-2016-9962] Insecure opening of file-descriptor allows privilege
> escalation
>
> ==============================================================
>
> 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
>
>
> Credit for this discovery goes to Aleksa Sarai from SUSE and Tõnis Tiigi
> from Docker.



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