Important: runc

Issue Overview:

AWS is aware of CVE-2024-21626, an issue affecting the runc component of several open source container management systems. Under certain conditions, an actor could leverage a specially crafted container or container configuration to access files or directories outside the container’s file system namespace.

An updated version of runc that addresses the issue is available for Amazon Linux 1 (runc-1.1.11-1.0.amzn1), Amazon Linux 2 (runc-1.1.11-1.amzn2) and for Amazon Linux 2023 (runc-1.1.11-1.amzn2023). AWS recommends that customers using runc or any container-related software apply those updates or a newer version. (CVE-2024-21626)

Affected Packages:

runc

Issue Correction:
Run yum update runc to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    runc-1.1.11-1.1.amzn1.i686  
    runc-debuginfo-1.1.11-1.1.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    runc-1.1.11-1.1.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    runc-1.1.11-1.1.amzn1.x86_64  
    runc-debuginfo-1.1.11-1.1.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2024-21626

Mitre: CVE-2024-21626