The following flaw has been fixed in Docker 1.3.2: "" The Docker engine, up to and including version 1.3.1, was vulnerable to extracting files to arbitrary paths on the host during ‘docker pull’ and ‘docker load’ operations. This was caused by symlink and hardlink traversals present in Docker's image extraction. This vulnerability could be leveraged to perform remote code execution and privilege escalation. Docker 1.3.2 remedies this vulnerability. Additional checks have been added to pkg/archive and image extraction is now performed in a chroot. No remediation is available for older versions of Docker and users are advised to upgrade. "" Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Docker project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security and independent researcher Tõnis Tiigi as the original reporters. Reference: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/781
Created docker-io tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1167507] Affects: epel-6 [bug 1167508]
Statement: This issue affects the versions of Docker as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. However, this flaw is not known to be exploitable under any supported scenario. A future update may address this issue. Red Hat does not support or recommend running untrusted images.
*** Bug 1133084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
docker-io-1.3.2-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras Via RHBA-2014:1977 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1977.html