Moderate: docker security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: docker security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for docker is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that runs virtually anywhere.

Security Fix(es):

  • runc: AppArmor/SELinux bypass with malicious image that specifies a volume at /proc (CVE-2019-16884)
  • proglottis/gpgme: Use-after-free in GPGME bindings during container image pull (CVE-2020-8945)
  • containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory (CVE-2020-1702)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

  • Whitelist statx(2) in docker (BZ#1784228)
  • Upgrading docker resulting into increase Systemd logs (BZ#1791870)
  • docker should be linked against gpgme-pthread (BZ#1792243)
  • docker cannot be updated to 108 on rhos13 as a container fails to start with "pivot_root invalid argument" error. (BZ#1795376)
  • OVS pods are unable to stop when running under docker version 1.13.1-108 (BZ#1796451)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1757214 - CVE-2019-16884 runc: AppArmor/SELinux bypass with malicious image that specifies a volume at /proc
  • BZ - 1784228 - Whitelist statx(2) in docker
  • BZ - 1792796 - CVE-2020-1702 containers/image: Container images read entire image manifest into memory
  • BZ - 1795376 - docker cannot be updated to 108 on rhos13 as a container fails to start with "pivot_root invalid argument" error.
  • BZ - 1795838 - CVE-2020-8945 proglottis/gpgme: Use-after-free in GPGME bindings during container image pull
  • BZ - 1796451 - OVS pods are unable to stop when running under docker version 1.13.1-108

CVEs

References