Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-783
Advisory Release Date: 2017-01-10 18:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-01-10 18:00 Pacific
It was discovered that 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, which can lead to container escapes or modification of runC state before the process is fully placed inside the container.
Affected Packages:
docker
Issue Correction:
Run yum update docker to update your system.
noarch:
docker-devel-1.12.6-1.17.amzn1.noarch
docker-pkg-devel-1.12.6-1.17.amzn1.noarch
src:
docker-1.12.6-1.17.amzn1.src
x86_64:
docker-1.12.6-1.17.amzn1.x86_64
docker-debuginfo-1.12.6-1.17.amzn1.x86_64