Release Notes: Milestone 73
Current Status
| Image Family |
cos-73-lts |
| Deprecated After |
Jun 19, 2020 |
| Kernel |
4.14.174 |
| Kubernetes |
v1.13.3 |
| Docker |
v18.09.7 |
Changelog
cos-73-11647-656-0
Date: Sep 05, 2020
- Fixed Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2020-14386 by fixing an integer
overflow issue in tpacket_rcv.
cos-73-11647-600-0
Date: July 13, 2020
- Moved Kernel source to cos.googlesource.com.
- Mounted /var/lib/containerd with exec option.
- Fixed incorrect bprm->vma_pages prevent capturing all stack pages.
cos-73-11647-534-0
Date: May 07, 2020
- Image rebuild to address an infrastructure issue. No image changes.
cos-73-11647-510-0
Date: Apr 13, 2020
- Disabled `accept_ra` on all interfaces by default.
- Upgraded OpenSSH to 7.9_p1 to fix CVE-2018-15473.
cos-73-11647-501-0
Date: Apr 05, 2020
- Upgraded the Linux kernel to v4.14.174.
- Backported systemd patch ba0d56f55 to address an issue that resulted in
leaked mount units.
cos-73-11647-459-0
Date: Feb 21, 2020
- Fixed TCP empty skb at the tail of the write queue bug in kernel.
- Upgraded the Linux kernel to v4.14.171.
cos-73-11647-449-0
Date: Feb 12, 2020
- Upgraded runc to 1.0.0-rc10. This resolves CVE-2019-19921.
- Upgraded the Linux kernel to v4.14.170.
cos-73-11647-415-0
Date: Jan 07, 2020
- Fixed CFS quota throttling issue.
- Increase sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_limit_output_bytes to 1048576.
- Upgraded the Linux kernel to v4.14.160.
cos-73-11647-348-0
Date: Oct 28, 2019
- Upgraded the Linux kernel to v4.14.150.
- Fixed the unnecessary creation of two separate test slices (resulting in 4
systemd log messages total + runtime overhead) for every runc execution.
- Fixed a performance regression in completely fair scheduler (CFS).
cos-73-11647-338-0
Date: Oct 21, 2019
- Fixed an issue in systemd that resulted in unnecessary CPU consumption.
- Fixed an issue in runc that resulted in unnecessary CPU consumption.
cos-73-11647-329-0
Date: Oct 08, 2019
- Upgraded the Linux kernel to 4.14.145.
- Backported a kernel patch to ensure the cfs cgroup quota/period ratio
always stays the same. This addresses a Kubernetes issue where the pod
cgroup could be changed into an inconsistent state.
cos-73-11647-293-0
Date: Sep 04, 2019
- Upgraded containerd to v1.2.8.
- Upgraded the Linux kernel to version 4.14.138.
- Backported upstream writeback patches to fix a softlockup issue.
cos-73-11647-267-0
Date: Aug 08, 2019
Upgraded the Linux kernel to v4.14.137. This resolves CVE-2019-1125.
cos-73-11647-239-0
Date: Jul 12, 2019
- Upgraded Docker to version 18.09.7. This resolves CVE-2018-15664.
- Upgraded runc to version 1.0.0_rc8.
- Upgraded docker-proxy to version 0.8.0_p20190513.
cos-73-11647-231-0
Date: Jul 02, 2019
- Upgraded containerd to v1.2.7.
- Updated kernel to version v4.14.131.
- Fixed vulnerability in app-arch/bzip2 (CVE-2019-12900).
- Fixed an issue introduced by NFLX-2019-001 fixes.
cos-73-11647-217-0
Date: Jun 19, 2019
- Updated the Linux kernel to version 4.14.127 to resolve the NFLX-2019-001
TCP SACK vulnerabilities.
cos-73-11647-214-0
Date: Jun 17, 2019
- Updated kernel to version v4.14.124.
- Backported affinity change-set for napi-tx.
cos-73-11647-192-0
Date: May 28, 2019
- Upgraded curl to v7.64.1 to fix CVE-2018-16890.
- Upgraded containerd to version 1.2.6.
- Set OOM score to -999 for docker.service and containerd.service to enhance
the reliability of core system daemons.
- Add restart policy in containerd.service, and corrected docker.service's
dependency on containerd.service to allow containerd to recover from crashes.
- Backported affinity changes to support napi-tx in COS.
- Cherry-picked upstream patch https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10951403/ in kernel to fix
a bug in lockd introduced by commit 01b79d20008d "lockd: Show pid of lockd for remote locks"
in Linux kernel v4.14.105.
- Rotated keys used by UEFI Secure Boot for signing and verifying the UEFI boot path.
cos-73-11647-182-0
Date: May 16, 2019
- Merged Linux Stable Kernel 'v4.14.119' for resolving
Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities
(CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091).
- Mitigated a mount hang issue in the Linux kernel.
cos-73-11647-163-0
Date: Apr 19, 2019
- Set LimitNOFILE to 1048576 in containerd.service to fix an issue
where the file descriptor limit was not being properly applied to
containerd.
cos-73-11647-121-0
Date: Apr 01, 2019
- Included perf tool in the image.
- Fixed a bug that dockerd may start containerd even if
containerd.service exists.
- Fixed an issue where Docker did not preserve the UIDs/GIDs of the
init process on exec.
cos-73-11647-112-0 (vs Milestone 69)
Date: Mar 25, 2019
New features
- Added support for collecting kernel memory crash dumps.
- Added support for RAID and LVM.
- Added support for IPv6.
- Added support for iscsi and multipath in the kernel.
- Added support for kernel module signing.
- Enabled auto updates on Shielded VMs that have never booted in secure
boot mode. Auto update is still disabled on Shielded VMs that have
previously booted in secure boot mode.
- Disabled the CONFIG_DEVMEM configuration option in the kernel
to restrict privileged access to system memory.
- Added behavior for logging more debugging information to the serial
console during boot.
Bug fixes
- Fixed an
issue observed in Kubernetes liveness probes.
- Configured docker.service to always restart Docker after 10 seconds.
- Fixed an issue where a race condition between Docker and containerd
resulted in a Docker live restore failure.
- Increased fs.inotify.max_user_instances to 1024.
- Configured containerd to run as a standalone systemd service.
Package updates
- Upgraded the built-in kubelet to v1.13.3.
- Upgraded containerd to v1.2.5.
- Upgraded openssl to 1.0.2q.
- Upgraded Docker to 18.09.3.
- Installed the pigz package for faster Docker image downloads.
- Installed the keyutils package.
- Installed the sosreport package.
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