CVE-2016-9962

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9962
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9962.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9962
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-01-31T22:59:01.783Z
Modified
2026-08-19T14:34:41.774245Z
Severity
  • 6.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes during the initialization and can lead to container escapes or modification of runC state before the process is fully placed inside the container.

References

Affected packages

Git
github.com/docker-archive/engine

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/docker-archive/engine
Events
Introduced
4dc5990d7565a4a15d641bc6a0bc50a02cfcf302
Fixed
78d18021ecba00c00730dec9d56de6896f9e708d
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:docker:docker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.11.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.12.6"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9962.json"
github.com/moby/moby

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/moby/moby
Events
Introduced
4dc5990d7565a4a15d641bc6a0bc50a02cfcf302
Fixed
78d18021ecba00c00730dec9d56de6896f9e708d
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:docker:docker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.11.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.12.6"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9962.json"
github.com/opencontainers/runc

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/opencontainers/runc
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
50a19c6ff828c58e5dab13830bd3dacde268afe5
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Database specific

vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-08-19T14:34:41Z"
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9962.json"
vanir_signatures 
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