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Update module github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 to v2.3.6 [SECURITY] (main) - #3690
A bug in containerd's CRI ExecSync implementation allows exec probes and lifecycle hooks with background child processes to keep containerd's stdio-drain goroutines indefinitely blocked. Because the I/O drain phase lacks a default timeout or context cancellation handling, repeated ExecSync invocations (like probes) that include long-lived background processes against a container can cause containerd to leak goroutines and host memory. Over time, this resource exhaustion can cause the containerd daemon to be terminated by the OOM killer, rendering containerd unavailable until it is restarted. This issue affects containerd on Linux systems running with the CRI plugin enabled. Users not using containerd's CRI implementation or not running containers on Linux are not affected.
Patches
This bug has been fixed in containerd 2.3.5, 2.2.8, 2.0.12, and 1.7.35. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue.
Workarounds
Ensure exec probes and lifecycle hooks do not launch long-lived background child processes.
Credits
The containerd project would like to thank XlabAI Team of Tencent Xuanwu Lab (xlabai@tencent.com), including Guannan Wang, Zhanpeng Liu, Jiashuo Liang, and Guancheng Li, and @IamwhatIamSY who independently discovered and responsibly disclosed this issue in accordance with the containerd security policy.
For more information
If there are any questions or comments about this advisory:
A vulnerability exists in containerd's layer unpack handler where the processing of certain image layers causes superlinear time complexity. During the unpack operation, specific file configurations within the layer can trigger repeated directory traversals.
Consequently, pulling or importing a maliciously crafted image can result in increased unpack times and a moderate increase in CPU usage. This delays container startup, even if the compressed image layers are small. Additionally, in orchestrators like Kubernetes that apply concurrency limits to image pulls, these excessively long operations can reduce the available concurrency for other pulls, potentially delaying unrelated container deployments.
Patches
This bug has been fixed in containerd 2.3.5, 2.2.8, 2.0.12, and 1.7.35. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue.
Workarounds
There are no known workarounds for this issue. Users are advised to only pull and import trusted images from known registries until the patch can be applied.
Credits
The containerd project would like to thank Jakub Ciolek of AlphaSense for responsibly disclosing this issue in accordance with the containerd security policy.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
A vulnerability exists in containerd's image pull handlers where a crafted OCI image index containing deeply nested or heavily fanned-out descriptor graphs can cause unbounded CPU and memory consumption. During the PullImage operation, the recursive traversal and processing of child descriptors lack sufficient depth and breadth limits, and fail to adequately deduplicate identical descriptors. This unbounded traversal leads to excessive resource allocation.
Consequently, pulling a malicious image reference can result in prolonged stalls during container creation and significant resource pressure on the host system. This issue occurs entirely during the image pull phase, prior to any container execution.
Patches
This bug has been fixed in containerd 2.4.1, 2.3.6, 2.2.9, 2.0.13, and 1.7.36. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue.
Workarounds
There are no known workarounds for this issue. Users are advised to only pull trusted images from known registries until the patch can be applied.
Credits
The containerd project would like to thank Jakub Ciolek at ElevenLabs and @jlgore who independently discovered and responsibly disclosed this issue in accordance with the containerd security policy.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
containerd-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: ✅Recommended. Dynamically linked with glibc 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04).
containerd-static-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: Statically linked. Expected to be used on Linux distributions that do not use glibc >= 2.35. Not position-independent.
In addition to containerd, typically you will have to install runc
and CNI plugins from their official sites too.
containerd-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: ✅Recommended. Dynamically linked with glibc 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04).
containerd-static-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: Statically linked. Expected to be used on Linux distributions that do not use glibc >= 2.35. Not position-independent.
In addition to containerd, typically you will have to install runc
and CNI plugins from their official sites too.
This is a dependency and toolchain patch bump that addresses reported containerd vulnerabilities. No concrete merge-blocking risk was found in the reviewed change.
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This PR contains the following updates:
v2.3.4→v2.3.6containerd: CRI ExecSync Goroutine Leak Leads to Node-Level Denial of Service
CVE-2026-53495 / GHSA-7jxh-36q5-gcqv / GO-2026-6444
More information
Details
Impact
A bug in containerd's CRI ExecSync implementation allows exec probes and lifecycle hooks with background child processes to keep containerd's stdio-drain goroutines indefinitely blocked. Because the I/O drain phase lacks a default timeout or context cancellation handling, repeated ExecSync invocations (like probes) that include long-lived background processes against a container can cause containerd to leak goroutines and host memory. Over time, this resource exhaustion can cause the containerd daemon to be terminated by the OOM killer, rendering containerd unavailable until it is restarted. This issue affects containerd on Linux systems running with the CRI plugin enabled. Users not using containerd's CRI implementation or not running containers on Linux are not affected.
Patches
This bug has been fixed in containerd 2.3.5, 2.2.8, 2.0.12, and 1.7.35. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue.
Workarounds
Ensure exec probes and lifecycle hooks do not launch long-lived background child processes.
Credits
The containerd project would like to thank XlabAI Team of Tencent Xuanwu Lab (xlabai@tencent.com), including Guannan Wang, Zhanpeng Liu, Jiashuo Liang, and Guancheng Li, and @IamwhatIamSY who independently discovered and responsibly disclosed this issue in accordance with the containerd security policy.
For more information
If there are any questions or comments about this advisory:
To report a security issue in containerd:
Severity
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NReferences
This data is provided by OSV and the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).
containerd: Unpack DoS via repeated opaque whiteouts
CVE-2026-95838 / GHSA-rp3h-jf77-q9p4 / GO-2026-6796
More information
Details
Impact
A vulnerability exists in containerd's layer unpack handler where the processing of certain image layers causes superlinear time complexity. During the unpack operation, specific file configurations within the layer can trigger repeated directory traversals.
Consequently, pulling or importing a maliciously crafted image can result in increased unpack times and a moderate increase in CPU usage. This delays container startup, even if the compressed image layers are small. Additionally, in orchestrators like Kubernetes that apply concurrency limits to image pulls, these excessively long operations can reduce the available concurrency for other pulls, potentially delaying unrelated container deployments.
Patches
This bug has been fixed in containerd 2.3.5, 2.2.8, 2.0.12, and 1.7.35. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue.
Workarounds
There are no known workarounds for this issue. Users are advised to only pull and import trusted images from known registries until the patch can be applied.
Credits
The containerd project would like to thank Jakub Ciolek of AlphaSense for responsibly disclosing this issue in accordance with the containerd security policy.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
To report a security issue in containerd:
Severity
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NReferences
This data is provided by OSV and the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).
containerd: CRI ExecSync Goroutine Leak Leads to Node-Level Denial of Service in github.com/containerd/containerd
CVE-2026-53495 / GHSA-7jxh-36q5-gcqv / GO-2026-6444
More information
Details
containerd: CRI ExecSync Goroutine Leak Leads to Node-Level Denial of Service in github.com/containerd/containerd
Severity
Unknown
References
This data is provided by OSV and the Go Vulnerability Database (CC-BY 4.0).
containerd: Unpack DoS via repeated opaque whiteouts in github.com/containerd/containerd
CVE-2026-95838 / GHSA-rp3h-jf77-q9p4 / GO-2026-6796
More information
Details
containerd: Unpack DoS via repeated opaque whiteouts in github.com/containerd/containerd
Severity
Unknown
References
This data is provided by OSV and the Go Vulnerability Database (CC-BY 4.0).
Containerd has image-pull DoS via crafted OCI index graph amplification
CVE-2026-53493 / GHSA-pg57-6jwg-q645 / GO-2026-6597
More information
Details
Impact
A vulnerability exists in containerd's image pull handlers where a crafted OCI image index containing deeply nested or heavily fanned-out descriptor graphs can cause unbounded CPU and memory consumption. During the
PullImageoperation, the recursive traversal and processing of child descriptors lack sufficient depth and breadth limits, and fail to adequately deduplicate identical descriptors. This unbounded traversal leads to excessive resource allocation.Consequently, pulling a malicious image reference can result in prolonged stalls during container creation and significant resource pressure on the host system. This issue occurs entirely during the image pull phase, prior to any container execution.
Patches
This bug has been fixed in containerd 2.4.1, 2.3.6, 2.2.9, 2.0.13, and 1.7.36. Users should update to these versions to resolve the issue.
Workarounds
There are no known workarounds for this issue. Users are advised to only pull trusted images from known registries until the patch can be applied.
Credits
The containerd project would like to thank Jakub Ciolek at ElevenLabs and @jlgore who independently discovered and responsibly disclosed this issue in accordance with the containerd security policy.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
To report a security issue in containerd:
Severity
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NReferences
This data is provided by OSV and the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).
Containerd has image-pull DoS via crafted OCI index graph amplification in github.com/containerd/containerd
CVE-2026-53493 / GHSA-pg57-6jwg-q645 / GO-2026-6597
More information
Details
Containerd has image-pull DoS via crafted OCI index graph amplification in github.com/containerd/containerd
Severity
Unknown
References
This data is provided by OSV and the Go Vulnerability Database (CC-BY 4.0).
Release Notes
containerd/containerd (github.com/containerd/containerd/v2)
v2.3.6: containerd 2.3.6Compare Source
Welcome to the v2.3.6 release of containerd!
The sixth patch release for containerd 2.3 contains various fixes
and updates including a security patch.
Security Updates
Highlights
Container Runtime Interface (CRI)
Image Storage
Runtime
Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues.
Contributors
Changes
26 commits
086fc0d40ePrepare release notes for v2.3.63e3b3daabcMerge commit from fork03fbef37daBound Walk referencesbfe167214bBound Dispatch concurrency and references5f17a29a9bcore/mount: Keep lazy copy for filtered options49796574fbcore/mount: Return copied filtered mount optionscb3f358aeamount: share lazy option filteringee7ae5b7c7mount: fix shallow copy of Options in RemoveVolatileOption and RemoveIDMapOption1facedfb21mount: fix input mutation in readonlyMounts5ca695a441mount: replace copyMounts with slices.Clone7fd198f858cri: tolerate wrapped ENOTSUP during relabel147edce99frelease: don't mark 2.3 releases as latestc2c5164437cri: only unmount image volumes when mounting fails74d0c79682cri: enable mount manager for image mounts4a3a41d353core/unpack: fetch layers of every config-sharing manifest9c6d7e9509pkg/oci: mask thermal interrupt infoac4464a399Update to go1.26.8f7f64ddc06Update to go1.26.7902a7d5e6cUpdate to go1.26.6Dependency Changes
This release has no dependency changes
Previous release can be found at v2.3.5
Which file should I download?
containerd-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: ✅Recommended. Dynamically linked with glibc 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04).containerd-static-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: Statically linked. Expected to be used on Linux distributions that do not use glibc >= 2.35. Not position-independent.In addition to containerd, typically you will have to install runc
and CNI plugins from their official sites too.
See also the Getting Started documentation.
v2.3.5: containerd 2.3.5Compare Source
Welcome to the v2.3.5 release of containerd!
The fifth patch release for containerd 2.3 contains various fixes
and updates including security patches.
Security Updates
Highlights
Image Distribution
Runtime
Snapshotters
Please try out the release binaries and report any issues at
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues.
Contributors
Changes
33 commits
934efa5e0Prepare release notes for v2.3.5be419b070Merge commit from fork9ec55f024cri: cancel ExecSync IO drain on context cancellation84ea25bc1Merge commit from forkc53577965archive: skip redundant opaque whiteout walks9f6be869cFix data races and a deadlock in the byte stream helpers6c59399bfplugins: remove some stray logrus importsf65732115snapshots/erofs: test the advertised erofs feature platform5ffc2bbdaerofs: advertise the erofs OS feature platform from the snapshotteraf445ea0aupdate runc to v1.5.1c077e43bdupdate runc to v1.5.0676a64cadvendor: github.com/containerd/platforms v1.0.0-rc.5c7ffd8b00pkg/tracing: handle error and typed-nil Stringer attributes58fb846d5core/remotes/docker: normalize descriptor URL originsc7625a1ffcore/remotes/docker: strip sensitive headers on desc.urls fetch6fbb92c33update runhcs to v0.15.0-rc.453bf030eapkg/oci: resolve rootfs symlinks for user lookup7790c4c21ensure that the final config version is the higest in the config list1125b053fRevert "add check on version of drop in configs"460c47b28fix(runtime): bound shim loading with the load timeout7f97bc122Add more context to the shim delete errorChanges from containerd/platforms
2 commits
bacc690Fix WS2022 compat on hosts past the latest LTSCDependency Changes
Previous release can be found at v2.3.4
Which file should I download?
containerd-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: ✅Recommended. Dynamically linked with glibc 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04).containerd-static-<VERSION>-<OS>-<ARCH>.tar.gz: Statically linked. Expected to be used on Linux distributions that do not use glibc >= 2.35. Not position-independent.In addition to containerd, typically you will have to install runc
and CNI plugins from their official sites too.
See also the Getting Started documentation.
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