Advisories for Golang/Github.com/Lima-Vm/Lima package

2023

In Lima, a malicious disk image could read a single file on the host filesystem as a qcow2/vmdk backing file

Lima launches Linux virtual machines, typically on macOS, for running containerd. Prior to version 0.16.0, a virtual machine instance with a malicious disk image could read a single file on the host filesystem, even when no filesystem is mounted from the host. The official templates of Lima and the well-known third party products (Colima, Rancher Desktop, and Finch) are unlikely to be affected by this issue. To exploit this issue, …