Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Container Toolkit - November 2024

Updated 11/05/2024 12:02 PM

NVIDIA has released a software update for NVIDIA® Container Toolkit and NVIDIA GPU Operator. To protect your system, install the software update as described in the installation section of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit documentation and the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

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Details

This section provides a summary of potential vulnerabilities that this security update addresses and their impact. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors use CVSS v3.1 standards.

CVE ID Description Vector Base Score Severity CWE Impacts
CVE-2024-0134 NVIDIA Container Toolkit and NVIDIA GPU Operator for Linux contain a UNIX vulnerability where a specially crafted container image can lead to the creation of unauthorized files on the host. The name and location of the files cannot be controlled by an attacker. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to data tampering. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N 4.1 Medium CWE‑61 Data tampering

The NVIDIA risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk to your local installation. NVIDIA recommends evaluating the risk to your specific configuration.

Security Updates

The following table lists the software products and versions affected, and the updated version available from nvidia.com that includes this security update.

To protect your system, install the software update as described in the installation section of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit documentation and the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

CVE IDs Addressed Affected Products Platform or OS Affected Versions Updated Version
CVE‑2024-0134
NVIDIA Container Toolkit Linux All versions up to and including v1.16.2 v1.17
NVIDIA GPU Operator Linux All versions up to and including 24.6.2 24.9.0

Notes

To protect your system, install the software update as described in the installation section of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit documentation and the NVIDIA GPU Operator documentation.

Acknowledgements

NVIDIA thanks Andres Riancho, Ronen Shustin, and Shir Tamari from Wiz Research for reporting issue CVE-2024-0134.

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Revision History

Revision Date Description
1.0 5 November 2024 Initial release

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