Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201902-20

Severity: High
Date : 2019-02-17
CVE-ID : CVE-2019-5736
Package : flatpak
Type : privilege escalation
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-880

Summary

The package flatpak before version 1.2.3-1 is vulnerable to privilege
escalation.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.2.3-1.

pacman -Syu “flatpak>=1.2.3-1”

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.2.3.

Workaround

None.

Description

A vulnerability discovered in runc through 1.0-rc6, as used in Docker
before 18.09.2 and other products, allows attackers to overwrite the
host runc binary (and consequently obtain host root access) by
leveraging the ability to execute a command as root within one of these
types of containers: (1) a new container with an attacker-controlled
image, or (2) an existing container, to which the attacker previously
had write access, that can be attached with docker exec. This occurs
because of file-descriptor mishandling, related to /proc/self/exe.

Impact

A malicious container can escalate privileges to gain access as root on
the host system and execute arbitrary code.

References

https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/6400238d08cdf1ca20d49bafb85f4e224348bf9d
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/0a8e4117e7f715d5fbeef398405813ce8e88558b
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/02/11/2
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-5736