CVE-2021-41103

NameCVE-2021-41103
Descriptioncontainerd is an open source container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. A bug was found in containerd where container root directories and some plugins had insufficiently restricted permissions, allowing otherwise unprivileged Linux users to traverse directory contents and execute programs. When containers included executable programs with extended permission bits (such as setuid), unprivileged Linux users could discover and execute those programs. When the UID of an unprivileged Linux user on the host collided with the file owner or group inside a container, the unprivileged Linux user on the host could discover, read, and modify those files. This vulnerability has been fixed in containerd 1.4.11 and containerd 1.5.7. Users should update to these version when they are released and may restart containers or update directory permissions to mitigate the vulnerability. Users unable to update should limit access to the host to trusted users. Update directory permission on container bundles directories.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-5002-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
containerd (PTS)bullseye1.4.13~ds1-1~deb11u4fixed
bullseye (security)1.4.13~ds1-1~deb11u2fixed
bookworm1.6.20~ds1-1fixed
sid, trixie1.6.24~ds1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
containerdsourcebullseye1.4.5~ds1-2+deb11u1DSA-5002-1
containerdsource(unstable)1.5.7~ds1-1

Notes

https://github.com/containerd/containerd/security/advisories/GHSA-c2h3-6mxw-7mvq
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/403846c9540f5bfdaf1fe5349cce5fd3bc60f507 (v1.4.11)
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/38532c6ed7bb9dd683ba9eaca62dd7cce0330cbb (v1.4.11)
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/commit/0b1bde38546a9283a52cf4970e01fd0f09b0ac4a (v1.4.11)

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