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Distroless base image vulnerability [December 21, 2020] #661

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@anouarchattouna

Hello,

We are using gcr.io/distroless/base as a base image for some applications. As per the last upload time December 21, 2020 at 6:26:30 PM UTC+1:

FROM gcr.io/distroless/base@sha256:0c5d357a80ab1315ef55f05be174a82e10d09fb2fd7dfcc3c44ebdde6f10c51e

we can see that there is 29 open CVEs (reported by goog-vulnz provider):

Effective severity CVSS Fix available Package Documentation
High 7.2 glib c CVE-2018-1000001
High 7.5 glib c CVE-2019-9169
High 7.5 glib c CVE-2018-6551
High 7.5 glib c CVE-2018-6485
Medium 5 glib c CVE-2009-5155
Medium 5.9 glib c CVE-2020-1751
Medium 4.6 glib c CVE-2016-10739
Medium 4.3 glib c CVE-2017-12132
Low 5 glib c CVE-2019-9192
Low 5 glib c CVE-2010-4051
Low 5 glib c CVE-2018-20796
Low 5 glib c CVE-2019-1010025
Low 3.7 glib c CVE-2020-1752
Low 5.8 openssl CVE-2007-6755
Low 4 glib c CVE-2010-4756
Low 2.1 glib c CVE-2019-19126
Low 5 openssl CVE-2019-1551
Low 6.8 glib c CVE-2020-6096
Low 4.6 glib c CVE-2019-6488
Low 5 glib c CVE-2019-1010024
Low 7.5 glib c CVE-2019-1010022
Low 4 openssl CVE-2010-0928
Low 4.3 glib c CVE-2016-10228
Low 6.8 glib c CVE-2019-1010023
Low 4.3 glib c CVE-2015-8985
Low 5 glib c CVE-2010-4052
Low 2.1 glib c CVE-2020-10029
Low 2.1 glib c CVE-2019-7309
Unspecified 0 glib c CVE-2020-27618

After looking at this answer, we can see that there is some CVEs that have been fixed in debian:buster but not in distroless:

CVE-2018-1000001
CVE-2019-9169
CVE-2018-6551
CVE-2018-6485
CVE-2009-5155
CVE-2016-10739
CVE-2015-8985

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