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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-31T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:07:31.309Z

Reserved: 2016-12-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9962

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-31T22:59:01.783

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:37:40.377

Link: CVE-2016-9962

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-01-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9962 - Bugzilla