Security update for apptainer
This update for apptainer fixes the following issues:
Updated to 1.1.2 which fixed CVE-2022-39237
- CVE-2022-39237: The sif dependency included in Apptainer before this
release does not verify that the hash algorithm(s) used are
cryptographically secure when verifying digital signatures. This release
updates to sif v2.8.1 which corrects this issue. See the linked advisory
for references and a workaround.
Updated to version 1.1.0
- added squashfuse-0.1.105.tar.gz and 70.patch for the build of squashfuse_ll
which will be removed as soon as the multithread patch is incoperated
- Change squash mounts to prefer to use squashfuse_ll instead of squashfuse,
if available, for improved performance. squashfuse_ll is not available
in factory.
- Also, for even better parallel performance, include a patched
multithreaded version of squashfuse_ll in
- Imply adding ${prefix}/libexec/apptainer/bin to the binary path in
apptainer.conf, which is used for searching for helper executables. It is
implied as the first directory of $PATH if present (which is at the
beginning of binary path by default) or just as the first directory if
$PATH is not included in binary path.
${prefix}/libexec/apptainer/bin.
- Add --unsquash action flag to temporarily convert a SIF file to a sandbox
before running. In previous versions this was the default when running a
SIF file without setuid or with fakeroot, but now the default is to instead
mount with squashfuse.
- Add --sparse flag to overlay create command to allow generation of a sparse
ext3 overlay image.
- Support for a custom hashbang in the %test section of an Apptainer recipe
(akin to the runscript and start sections).
- When using fakeroot in setuid mode, have the image drivers first enter the
the container's user namespace to avoid write errors with overlays.
- Skip trying to use kernel overlayfs when using writable overlay and the
lower layer is FUSE, because of a kernel bug introduced in kernel 5.15.
- Add additional hidden options to the action command for testing different
fakeroot modes with --fakeroot: --ignore-subuid, --ignore-fakeroot-command,
and --ignore-userns.
- Updated to version 1.1.0-rc2 with following changes:
- Fixed longstanding bug in the underlay logic when there are nested bind
points separated by more than one path level, for example /var and
/var/lib/yum, and the path didn't exist in the container image. The bug
only caused an error when there was a directory in the container image that
didn't exist on the host.
- Improved wildcard matching in the %files directive of build definition
files by replacing usage of sh with the mvdan.cc library.
- Replaced checks for compatible filesystem types when using fuse-overlayfs
with an INFO message when an incompatible filesystem type causes it to be
unwritable by a fakeroot user.
- The --nvccli option now works without --fakeroot. In that case the option
can be used with --writable-tmpfs instead of --writable, and
--writable-tmpfs is implied if neither option is given. Note that also
/usr/bin has to be writable by the user, so without --fakeroot that
probably requires a sandbox image that was built with --fix-perms.
- The --nvccli option implies --nv.
- Configure squashfuse to always show files to be owned by the current user.
That's especially important for fakeroot to prevent most of the files from
looking like they are owned by user 65534.
- The fakeroot command can now be used even if $PATH is empty in the
environment of the apptainer command.
- Allow the newuidmap command to be missing if the current user is not listed
in /etc/subuid.
- Require the uidmap package in Debian packaging.
- Improved error handling of unsupported pass protected PEM files with
encrypted containers.
- Ensure bootstrap_history directory is populated with previous definition
files, present in source containers used in a build.
- Add additional options to the build command for testing different fakeroot
modes: --userns like the action flag and hidden options --ignore-subuid,
--ignore-fakeroot-command, and --ignore-userns.
- Require root user early when building an encrypted container.
- removed upstream incorated patch fix-32bit-compilation.patch
- Updated to version 1.1.0-rc1 which enables apptainer to run without
suid and additional groups. Although this is a prerelease this is
a major advantage justifying its use.
- Added a squashfuse image driver that enables mounting SIF files without
using setuid-root. Requires the squashfuse command and unprivileged user
namespaces.
- Added a fuse2fs image driver that enables mounting EXT3 files and EXT3 SIF
overlay partitions without using setuid-root. Requires the fuse2fs command
and unprivileged user namespaces.
