libwebp VS crun

The thing that concerns me most is looking at the fix it is very difficult to see why this fix is correct. It also appears as there is lots of code without explicit bounds checks. It makes me worried because while the logic may be safe this makes the logic very complex. I wonder what the cost would be to add an explicit, local bounds check at every array access. This would serve as a backup that is much easier to verify. I suspect the cost would be relatively small. Small enough that I personally would be happy to pay it.

https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/commit/902bc919033134...

This is also a great reminded that fuzzing isn't a solution to memory unsafe languages and libraries. If anything the massive amount of bugs found via fuzzing should scare us as it is likely only scratching the surface of the vulnerabilities that still lie in the code, a couple too many branches away from being likely to be found by fuzzing.

There's a follow-up fix, according to Debian[0]: https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/commit/95ea5226c87044...

[0]: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-4863

The breakage [0] was introduced by the creator [1] of the project. If you want to audit 1674 commits over the past 12 years, it'd be easier to just audit the full project.

[0] https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/commit/21735e06f7c1cb...

[1] https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/commit/c3f41cb47e5f32...

If you like the command line, then you can use ffmpeg and ImageMagick, or use libwebp directly

The webp parser code is open source. Which means that even if Google decides to hide/obscure the code for webp, they'd legally not be allowed to prevent you from using older versions of the webp parser library. The only thing they could do is patent it, and then companies in the US (which has software patents, unfortunately) would have to pay royalties to decode it anyway; but here comes the next point

Yep pretty much.

The executables bundle crun (a container runtime)[0], and a fuse implementation of squashfs and overlayfs. Appended to that is a squashfs of the image.

At runtime the squashfs and overlayfs are mounted and the container is started.

[0]: https://github.com/containers/crun

cpu: 4 disk: 60 memory: 12 arch: host hostname: colima autoActivate: true forwardAgent: false # I only tested this with 'docker', not 'containerd': runtime: docker kubernetes: enabled: false version: v1.24.3+k3s1 k3sArgs: [] network: address: true dns: [] dnsHosts: host.docker.internal: host.lima.internal # Added: # - containerd-snapshotter: true (meaning containerd will be used for pulling images) # - default-runtime / runtimes: crun (instead of the default 'runc') docker: default-runtime: crun features: buildkit: true containerd-snapshotter: true runtimes: crun: path: /usr/local/bin/crun vmType: vz rosetta: true mountType: virtiofs mountInotify: false cpuType: host # This provisioning script installs WasmEdge and builds crun with wasmedge support: provision: - mode: system script: | [ -f /etc/docker/daemon.json ] && echo "Already provisioned!" && exit 0 echo "Install system updates:" apt-get update -y apt-get upgrade -y echo "Install WasmEdge and crun dependencies:" # NOTE: packages curl git python3 already installed: apt-get install -y make gcc build-essential pkgconf libtool libsystemd-dev libprotobuf-c-dev libcap-dev libseccomp-dev libyajl-dev libgcrypt20-dev go-md2man autoconf automake criu apt-get clean -y - mode: user script: | [ -f /etc/docker/daemon.json ] && echo "Already provisioned!" && exit 0 echo "Installing WasmEdge:" curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge/master/utils/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -p /usr/local echo echo "`wasmedge -v` installed!" # NOTE: I failed to Configure Wasmtime properly - turned off for now: #echo "Installing Wasmtime:" #curl -sSf https://wasmtime.dev/install.sh | bash #sudo cp .wasmtime/bin/* /usr/local/bin/ #rm -rf .wasmtime #echo "`wasmtime -V` installed!" echo "Install crun:" git clone https://github.com/containers/crun cd crun ./autogen.sh #./configure --with-wasmedge --with-wasmtime ./configure --with-wasmedge make sudo make install crun -v echo "crun installed! Replacing runc with crun:" # NOTE: replacing runc with runc is to simplify containerd config TRC=`which runc` sudo rm -rf $TRC sudo cp `which crun` $TRC echo "Configuring containerd:" sudo mkdir -p /etc/containerd/ containerd config default | sudo tee /etc/containerd/config.toml >/dev/null echo "Restarting/reloading docker/containerd services:" sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl restart containerd # As soon as Colima writes its /etc/docker/daemon.json file (right after this provisioning script), # it will also start the Docker daemon. If we stop Docker here, the changes will actually take effect: sudo systemctl stop docker sshConfig: true mounts: [] env: {}

On this note, I was really surprised to find Red Hat's OCI runtime is written in C: https://github.com/containers/crun

Is anyone working on a Rust version?

It's interesting that, in light of things like this, you still see large software companies adding support for new components written in non-memory safe languages (e.g. C)

As an example Red Hat OpenShift added support for crun(https://github.com/containers/crun) this year(https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/whats-new-in-red-hat-openshift...), which is written in C as an alternative to runc, which is written in Go(https://github.com/opencontainers/runc)...

Kubernetes needs an OCI runtime to run containers with. Crun is one implementation it can use.

Docker also appears to be able to use crun for it's engine as well. https://github.com/containers/crun/issues/37

crun

Looks like https://github.com/containers/crun/issues/255 - start there.