diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 21ffe23dfc87..d3c290523bd8 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822
 	github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 v2.4.0
 	github.com/onsi/gomega v1.23.0
-	github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.3
+	github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.4
 	github.com/opencontainers/selinux v1.10.0
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
 	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index b9e7b0a9b62d..861d8b38228a 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -563,8 +563,9 @@ github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0 h1:apOUWs51W5PlhuyGyz9FCeeBIOUDA/6nW8
 github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0/go.mod h1:0JzlMkj0TRzQZfJkVvzbP0HBR3IKzErnv2BNG4W4MAM=
 github.com/opencontainers/image-spec v1.0.2 h1:9yCKha/T5XdGtO0q9Q9a6T5NUCsTn/DrBg0D7ufOcFM=
 github.com/opencontainers/image-spec v1.0.2/go.mod h1:BtxoFyWECRxE4U/7sNtV5W15zMzWCbyJoFRP3s7yZA0=
-github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.3 h1:vIXrkId+0/J2Ymu2m7VjGvbSlAId9XNRPhn2p4b+d8w=
 github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.3/go.mod h1:1J5XiS+vdZ3wCyZybsuxXZWGrgSr8fFJHLXuG2PsnNg=
+github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.4 h1:nRCz/8sKg6K6jgYAFLDlXzPeITBZJyX28DBVhWD+5dg=
+github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.4/go.mod h1:1J5XiS+vdZ3wCyZybsuxXZWGrgSr8fFJHLXuG2PsnNg=
 github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.0.2/go.mod h1:jwyrGlmzljRJv/Fgzds9SsS/C5hL+LL3ko9hs6T5lQ0=
 github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.0.3-0.20200929063507-e6143ca7d51d/go.mod h1:jwyrGlmzljRJv/Fgzds9SsS/C5hL+LL3ko9hs6T5lQ0=
 github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.0.3-0.20210326190908-1c3f411f0417 h1:3snG66yBm59tKhhSPQrQ/0bCrv1LQbKt40LnUPiUxdc=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups/systemd/common.go b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups/systemd/common.go
index 5a68a3cf394a..45744c15c0a1 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups/systemd/common.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups/systemd/common.go
@@ -288,14 +288,16 @@ func generateDeviceProperties(r *configs.Resources) ([]systemdDbus.Property, err
 			case devices.CharDevice:
 				entry.Path = fmt.Sprintf("/dev/char/%d:%d", rule.Major, rule.Minor)
 			}
+			// systemd will issue a warning if the path we give here doesn't exist.
+			// Since all of this logic is best-effort anyway (we manually set these
+			// rules separately to systemd) we can safely skip entries that don't
+			// have a corresponding path.
+			if _, err := os.Stat(entry.Path); err != nil {
+				logrus.Debugf("skipping device %s for systemd: %s", entry.Path, err)
+				continue
+			}
 		}
-		// systemd will issue a warning if the path we give here doesn't exist.
-		// Since all of this logic is best-effort anyway (we manually set these
-		// rules separately to systemd) we can safely skip entries that don't
-		// have a corresponding path.
-		if _, err := os.Stat(entry.Path); err == nil {
-			deviceAllowList = append(deviceAllowList, entry)
-		}
+		deviceAllowList = append(deviceAllowList, entry)
 	}
 
 	properties = append(properties, newProp("DeviceAllow", deviceAllowList))
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go
index 3cfd2bf1e432..ec7638e4d512 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/rootfs_linux.go
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ func prepareRootfs(pipe io.ReadWriter, iConfig *initConfig, mountFds []int) (err
 		// Therefore, we can access mountFds[i] without any concerns.
 		if mountFds != nil && mountFds[i] != -1 {
 			mountConfig.fd = &mountFds[i]
+		} else {
+			mountConfig.fd = nil
 		}
 
 		if err := mountToRootfs(m, mountConfig); err != nil {
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go
index 585a04fa0806..081d1503a3f3 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go
@@ -198,6 +198,13 @@ func (l *linuxStandardInit) Init() error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	// exec.LookPath might return no error for an executable residing on a
+	// file system mounted with noexec flag, so perform this extra check
+	// now while we can still return a proper error.
+	if err := system.Eaccess(name); err != nil {
+		return &os.PathError{Op: "exec", Path: name, Err: err}
+	}
+
 	// Set seccomp as close to execve as possible, so as few syscalls take
 	// place afterward (reducing the amount of syscalls that users need to
 	// enable in their seccomp profiles). However, this needs to be done
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/system/linux.go b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/system/linux.go
index e1d6eb18034c..039059a444cc 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/system/linux.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/system/linux.go
@@ -31,6 +31,25 @@ func (p ParentDeathSignal) Set() error {
 	return SetParentDeathSignal(uintptr(p))
 }
 
+// Eaccess is similar to unix.Access except for setuid/setgid binaries
+// it checks against the effective (rather than real) uid and gid.
+func Eaccess(path string) error {
+	err := unix.Faccessat2(unix.AT_FDCWD, path, unix.X_OK, unix.AT_EACCESS)
+	if err != unix.ENOSYS && err != unix.EPERM { //nolint:errorlint // unix errors are bare
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Faccessat2() not available; check if we are a set[ug]id binary.
+	if os.Getuid() == os.Geteuid() && os.Getgid() == os.Getegid() {
+		// For a non-set[ug]id binary, use access(2).
+		return unix.Access(path, unix.X_OK)
+	}
+
+	// For a setuid/setgid binary, there is no fallback way
+	// so assume we can execute the binary.
+	return nil
+}
+
 func Execv(cmd string, args []string, env []string) error {
 	name, err := exec.LookPath(cmd)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 121564bc5fbe..17cc0c0e056e 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ github.com/onsi/gomega/types
 # github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0
 ## explicit; go 1.13
 github.com/opencontainers/go-digest
-# github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.3
+# github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.4
 ## explicit; go 1.16
 github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer
 github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/apparmor