PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in Docker. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.
CVEID: CVE-2019-5736 DESCRIPTION: Runc could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, cause by the improper handling of system file descriptors when running containers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a malicious container to overwrite the contents of the host runc binary and execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the host system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/156819> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
PowerKVM 3.1
Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using “yum update”.
Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdHggw. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 18.
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