CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-20291

Improper Locking

Published: Apr 01, 2021 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A deadlock vulnerability was found in github.com/containers/storage in versions before 1.28.1. When a container image is processed, each layer is unpacked using tar. If one of those layers is not a valid tar archive this causes an error leading to an unexpected situation where the code indefinitely waits for the tar unpacked stream, which never finishes. An attacker could use this vulnerability to craft a malicious image, which when downloaded and stored by an application using containers/storage, would then cause a deadlock leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).

Weakness

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Storage Storage_project * 1.28.1 (excluding)
Golang-github-containers-storage Ubuntu groovy *
Golang-github-containers-storage Ubuntu hirsute *
Golang-github-containers-storage Ubuntu impish *
Golang-github-containers-storage Ubuntu kinetic *
Golang-github-containers-storage Ubuntu lunar *
Golang-github-containers-storage Ubuntu mantic *
Golang-github-containers-storage Ubuntu trusty *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat container-tools:3.0-8050020220104131412.e34216c9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat container-tools:rhel8-8050020210921082437.faa19cc5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat podman-2:4.2.0-3.el9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat skopeo-2:1.9.2-1.el9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat buildah-1:1.27.0-2.el9 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 RedHat cri-o-0:1.20.2-6.rhaos4.7.gitf1d5201.el8 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 RedHat openshift-0:4.7.0-202104090228.p0.git.97111.77863f8.el8 *
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 RedHat openshift4/ose-docker-builder:v4.8.0-202107152024.p0.git.70b7b95.assembly.stream *

Extended Description

Locking is a type of synchronization behavior that ensures that multiple independently-operating processes or threads do not interfere with each other when accessing the same resource. All processes/threads are expected to follow the same steps for locking. If these steps are not followed precisely - or if no locking is done at all - then another process/thread could modify the shared resource in a way that is not visible or predictable to the original process. This can lead to data or memory corruption, denial of service, etc.

Potential Mitigations

References