Remove vulnerable helper binaries from distroless image#640
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Remove vulnerable helper binaries from distroless image#640jsonmp-k8 wants to merge 1 commit intoNVIDIA:mainfrom
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The NVIDIA distroless base image (nvcr.io/nvidia/distroless/cc:v4.0.1) ships shelless_ulimit and sleep helper binaries built with Go 1.25.5, which carry 1 CRITICAL and 3 HIGH CVEs: - CVE-2025-68121 (CRITICAL): crypto/tls session resumption - CVE-2025-61726 (HIGH): net/url memory exhaustion - CVE-2025-61728 (HIGH): archive/zip CPU exhaustion - CVE-2025-61730 (HIGH): TLS 1.3 handshake issue All are fixed in Go >= 1.25.7 but the base image has not been rebuilt. dcgm-exporter does not reference these binaries, so removing them eliminates the CVEs without any functional impact. Signed-off-by: Jaison Paul <paul.jaison@gmail.com>
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Summary
shelless_ulimit_*andsleep_*helper binaries from the distroless image that carry 1 CRITICAL + 3 HIGH CVEs due to being built with Go 1.25.5nvcr.io/nvidia/distroless/cc:v4.0.1) and are not referenced by dcgm-exporterProblem
Trivy scan of the current distroless image shows 4 fixable vulnerabilities in two helper binaries shipped by the base image:
All are fixed in Go >= 1.25.7, but the base image binaries were built with Go 1.25.5.
Fix
Since dcgm-exporter does not use
shelless_ulimit_*orsleep_*(confirmed via codebase grep), this PR removes them from the final distroless image by temporarily copyingrmfrom the helper stage and deleting them.Scan Results (Before → After)
Test Plan