Ubuntu Security Update USN-7851-1: runC vulnerabilities

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Lei Wang and Li Fubang discovered that runC incorrectly handled masked paths. An attacker could possibly replace a container's /dev/null with a symlink to some other procfs file and possibly escape a container. (CVE-2025-31133) Lei Wang and Li Fubang discovered that runC incorrectly handled the /dev/console bind-mounts. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to build-mount a symlink and escape a container. (CVE-2025-52565) Li Fubang and Tõnis Tiigi discovered that the fix for CVE-2019-16884 was incomplete. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or escape the container. (CVE-2025-52881)

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