Moderate: runc security update

Topic

An update for runc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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

The runC tool is a lightweight, portable implementation of the Open Container Format (OCF) that provides container runtime.

Security Fix(es):

• golang: crypto/tls: slow verification of certificate chains containing large RSA keys (CVE-2023-29409)
• golang: crypto/tls: panic when processing post-handshake message on QUIC connections (CVE-2023-39321)
• golang: crypto/tls: lack of a limit on buffered post-handshake (CVE-2023-39322)

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.

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 for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2228743 - CVE-2023-29409 golang: crypto/tls: slow verification of certificate chains containing large RSA keys
• BZ - 2237777 - CVE-2023-39321 golang: crypto/tls: panic when processing post-handshake message on QUIC connections
• BZ - 2237778 - CVE-2023-39322 golang: crypto/tls: lack of a limit on buffered post-handshake

CVEs

• CVE-2023-29409
• CVE-2023-39321
• CVE-2023-39322

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate