SUSE SLES15: containerd / docker / docker-bash-completion / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:1954-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150729

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:1954-1 advisory.

Docker was updated to 20.10.6-ce (bsc#1184768, bsc#1182947, bsc#1181594)

* Switch version to use -ce suffix rather than _ce to avoid confusing other tools (bsc#1182476).
* CVE-2021-21284: Fixed a potential privilege escalation when the root user in the remapped namespace has access to the host filesystem (bsc#1181732)
* CVE-2021-21285: Fixed an issue where pulling a malformed Docker image manifest crashes the dockerd daemon (bsc#1181730).
* btrfs quotas being removed by Docker regularly (bsc#1183855, bsc#1175081)

runc was updated to v1.0.0~rc93 (bsc#1182451, bsc#1175821 bsc#1184962).

* Use the upstream runc package (bsc#1181641, bsc#1181677, bsc#1175821).
* Fixed /dev/null is not available (bsc#1168481).
* CVE-2021-30465: Fixed a symlink-exchange attack vulnarability (bsc#1185405).

containerd was updated to v1.4.4

* CVE-2021-21334: Fixed a potential information leak through environment variables (bsc#1183397).
* Handle a requirement from docker (bsc#1181594).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 150729

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1954-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/12/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

Percentile: 96.59

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-30465

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:docker, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:docker-fish-completion, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:containerd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:runc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:docker-bash-completion, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21284, CVE-2021-21285, CVE-2021-21334, CVE-2021-30465

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:1954-1

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