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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202311-13">
    <title>Apptainer: Privilege Escalation</title>
    <synopsis>A privilege escalation vulnerability has been discoverd in Apptainer.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">apptainer</product>
    <announced>2023-11-25</announced>
    <revised count="1">2023-11-25</revised>
    <bug>905091</bug>
    <access>local</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="app-containers/apptainer" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">1.1.8</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.8</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Apptainer is the container system for secure high-performance computing.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in Apptainer. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="high">
        <p>There is an ext4 use-after-free flaw that is exploitable in vulnerable versions.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Apptainer users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-containers/apptainer-1.1.8"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-30549">CVE-2023-30549</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2023-11-25T10:47:30.694976Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2023-11-25T10:47:30.697686Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>