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Bug 1409531 - (CVE-2016-9962) CVE-2016-9962 docker: insecure opening of file-descriptor allows privilege escalation
CVE-2016-9962 docker: insecure opening of file-descriptor allows privilege es...
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Trevor Jay
impact=moderate,public=20170111,repor...
: Security
Depends On: 1412239 1409705 1409706 1409707 1409708 1412147 1412189 1412237 1412238
Blocks: 1409535
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Reported: 2017-01-02 07:23 EST by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2017-01-18 03:17 EST (History)
28 users (show)

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Fixed In Version: docker 1.12.6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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The runc component used by `docker exec` feature of docker allowed additional container processes to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain low-level access to these new processes during initialization. An attacker can, depending on the nature of the incoming process, leverage this to elevate access to the host. This ranges from accessing host content through the file descriptors of the incoming process to, potentially, a complete container escape by leveraging memory access or syscall interception.
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Last Closed: 2017-01-18 03:17:37 EST
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CVE-2016-9962 patch (12.80 KB, text/plain)
2017-01-02 07:32 EST, Martin Prpič 		no flags Details
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External Trackers
Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0116 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: docker security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-01-17 20:39:43 EST
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0123 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: docker-latest security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-01-17 20:41:25 EST
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0127 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: runc security and bug fix update 2017-01-17 20:42:24 EST

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Description Martin Prpič 2017-01-02 07:23:40 EST 
The following issue was reported in Docker:

RunC allowed additional container processes via `runc exec` to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container.  This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes during the initialization and can lead to container escapes or modification of runC state before the process is fully placed inside the container.
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2017-01-02 07:23:52 EST 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Docker project
Upstream: Aleksa Sarai (SUSE), Tõnis Tiigi (Docker)
Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2017-01-02 07:32 EST 
Created attachment 1236624 [details]
CVE-2016-9962 patch
Comment 8 Trevor Jay 2017-01-03 13:35:43 EST 
This is an extremely difficult to exploit flaw on standard RHEL and Fedora systems. 

I checked the 1.10.3 and 1.12.5 builds on Brew. Both drop the `CAP_SYS_PTRACE` capability by default. 1.10.3 blacklists `ptrace` calls under the default seccomp profile. Thus, this flaw only comes into play for containers that already have elevated privileges. 

Even if `ptrace` is available. The proposed exploit scenario of quickly attaching to a process joining the container space and using its file descriptors is *not* possible under the default SELinux configuration. The containerized PID 1 will have a type of `container_t` or similar SELinux type and thus will be blocked by standard type enforcement from accessing accessing any resources that haven't already been made available to containerized processes.
Comment 12 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-11 03:58:12 EST 
Public via:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/54
Comment 13 Trevor Jay 2017-01-11 10:27:11 EST 
Created runc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1412238]
Comment 15 Vincent Danen 2017-01-11 16:34:32 EST 
External References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/cve-2016-9962
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-17 15:45:29 EST 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras

Via RHSA-2017:0116 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0116.html
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-17 15:47:16 EST 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras

Via RHSA-2017:0123 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0123.html
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-17 15:48:01 EST 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras

Via RHSA-2017:0127 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0127.html
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