High [CVE-2024-9675] Buildah: buildah allows arbitrary directory mount
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2024-9675 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
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Summary
A vulnerability was found in Buildah. Cache mounts do not properly validate that user-specified paths for the cache are within our cache directory, allowing a `RUN` instruction in a Container file to mount an arbitrary directory from the host (read/write) into the container as long as those files can be accessed by the user running Buildah.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions; and 14 more.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12; and 8 more.
- before 1.38.0
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 1.38.0. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
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