Apptainer: Privilege Escalation

Apptainer: Privilege Escalation A privilege escalation vulnerability has been discoverd in Apptainer. apptainer 2023-11-25 2023-11-25 905091 local 1.1.8 1.1.8

Apptainer is the container system for secure high-performance computing.

A vulnerability has been discovered in Apptainer. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

There is an ext4 use-after-free flaw that is exploitable in vulnerable versions.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Apptainer users should upgrade to the latest version:


          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-containers/apptainer-1.1.8"

CVE-2023-30549 graaff graaff