SB2019110910 - Fedora 30 update for crun



SB2019110910 - Fedora 30 update for crun

Published: November 9, 2019 Updated: April 25, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2019110910
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Information disclosure

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-18837)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

An issue was discovered in crun before 0.10.5. With a crafted image, it doesn't correctly check whether a target is a symlink, resulting in access to files outside of the container. This occurs in libcrun/linux.c and libcrun/chroot_realpath.c.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.