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Oracle Linux 9 : runc (ELSA-2023-6380)

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oracle linux 9
runc vulnerabilities
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apparmor bypass
panics
crypto/tls
upgrading
elsa-2023-6380

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The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6380 advisory.

  • runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In runc, netlink is used internally as a serialization system for specifying the relevant container configuration to the C portion of the code (responsible for the based namespace setup of containers). In all versions of runc prior to 1.0.3, the encoder did not handle the possibility of an integer overflow in the 16-bit length field for the byte array attribute type, meaning that a large enough malicious byte array attribute could result in the length overflowing and the attribute contents being parsed as netlink messages for container configuration. This vulnerability requires the attacker to have some control over the configuration of the container and would allow the attacker to bypass the namespace restrictions of the container by simply adding their own netlink payload which disables all namespaces. The main users impacted are those who allow untrusted images with untrusted configurations to run on their machines (such as with shared cloud infrastructure). runc version 1.0.3 contains a fix for this bug. As a workaround, one may try disallowing untrusted namespace paths from your container. It should be noted that untrusted namespace paths would allow the attacker to disable namespace protections entirely even in the absence of this bug. (CVE-2021-43784)

  • runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2019-19921 regression. (CVE-2023-27561)

  • runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. It was found that AppArmor can be bypassed when /proc inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount configuration. This issue has been fixed in runc version 1.1.5, by prohibiting symlinked /proc. See PR #3785 for details. users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid using an untrusted container image. (CVE-2023-28642)

  • runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected versions it was found that rootless runc makes /sys/fs/cgroup writable in following conditons: 1. when runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the config.json does not specify the cgroup namespace to be unshared (e.g…, (docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=host, with Rootless Docker/Podman/nerdctl) or 2. when runc is executed outside the user namespace, and /sys is mounted with rbind, ro (e.g., runc spec --rootless; this condition is very rare). A container may gain the write access to user-owned cgroup hierarchy /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/... on the host . Other users’s cgroup hierarchies are not affected.
    Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.1.5. Users unable to upgrade may unshare the cgroup namespace ((docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private). This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl on cgroup v2 hosts. or add /sys/fs/cgroup to maskedPaths. (CVE-2023-25809)

  • Large handshake records may cause panics in crypto/tls. Both clients and servers may send large TLS handshake records which cause servers and clients, respectively, to panic when attempting to construct responses. This affects all TLS 1.3 clients, TLS 1.2 clients which explicitly enable session resumption (by setting Config.ClientSessionCache to a non-nil value), and TLS 1.3 servers which request client certificates (by setting Config.ClientAuth >= RequestClientCert). (CVE-2022-41724)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-6380.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(185838);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/12/19");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2021-43784",
    "CVE-2022-41724",
    "CVE-2023-25809",
    "CVE-2023-27561",
    "CVE-2023-28642"
  );

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 9 : runc (ELSA-2023-6380)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
ELSA-2023-6380 advisory.

  - runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In
    runc, netlink is used internally as a serialization system for specifying the relevant container
    configuration to the `C` portion of the code (responsible for the based namespace setup of containers). In
    all versions of runc prior to 1.0.3, the encoder did not handle the possibility of an integer overflow in
    the 16-bit length field for the byte array attribute type, meaning that a large enough malicious byte
    array attribute could result in the length overflowing and the attribute contents being parsed as netlink
    messages for container configuration. This vulnerability requires the attacker to have some control over
    the configuration of the container and would allow the attacker to bypass the namespace restrictions of
    the container by simply adding their own netlink payload which disables all namespaces. The main users
    impacted are those who allow untrusted images with untrusted configurations to run on their machines (such
    as with shared cloud infrastructure). runc version 1.0.3 contains a fix for this bug. As a workaround, one
    may try disallowing untrusted namespace paths from your container. It should be noted that untrusted
    namespace paths would allow the attacker to disable namespace protections entirely even in the absence of
    this bug. (CVE-2021-43784)

  - runc through 1.1.4 has Incorrect Access Control leading to Escalation of Privileges, related to
    libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go. To exploit this, an attacker must be able to spawn two containers with
    custom volume-mount configurations, and be able to run custom images. NOTE: this issue exists because of a
    CVE-2019-19921 regression. (CVE-2023-27561)

  - runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. It was found
    that AppArmor can be bypassed when `/proc` inside the container is symlinked with a specific mount
    configuration. This issue has been fixed in runc version 1.1.5, by prohibiting symlinked `/proc`. See PR
    #3785 for details. users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid using an untrusted
    container image. (CVE-2023-28642)

  - runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification. In affected
    versions it was found that rootless runc makes `/sys/fs/cgroup` writable in following conditons: 1. when
    runc is executed inside the user namespace, and the `config.json` does not specify the cgroup namespace to
    be unshared (e.g.., `(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=host`, with Rootless Docker/Podman/nerdctl) or
    2. when runc is executed outside the user namespace, and `/sys` is mounted with `rbind, ro` (e.g., `runc
    spec --rootless`; this condition is very rare). A container may gain the write access to user-owned cgroup
    hierarchy `/sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/...` on the host . Other users's cgroup hierarchies are not affected.
    Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.1.5. Users unable to upgrade may unshare the cgroup namespace
    (`(docker|podman|nerdctl) run --cgroupns=private)`. This is the default behavior of Docker/Podman/nerdctl
    on cgroup v2 hosts. or add `/sys/fs/cgroup` to `maskedPaths`. (CVE-2023-25809)

  - Large handshake records may cause panics in crypto/tls. Both clients and servers may send large TLS
    handshake records which cause servers and clients, respectively, to panic when attempting to construct
    responses. This affects all TLS 1.3 clients, TLS 1.2 clients which explicitly enable session resumption
    (by setting Config.ClientSessionCache to a non-nil value), and TLS 1.3 servers which request client
    certificates (by setting Config.ClientAuth >= RequestClientCert). (CVE-2022-41724)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-6380.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected runc package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-43784");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-28642");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/12/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/11/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/11/16");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:3:appstream_base");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:runc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/local_checks_enabled");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^9([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 9', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'runc-1.1.9-1.el9', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'4'},
    {'reference':'runc-1.1.9-1.el9', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'4'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'EL' + package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (exists_check) {
        if (rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check) && rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
    } else {
        if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
    }
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'runc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
oraclelinux9cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:3:appstream_base
oraclelinux9cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream
oraclelinux9cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9
oraclelinuxruncp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:runc