v29.8.2

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29.8.2

For a full list of pull requests and changes in this release, refer to the relevant GitHub milestones:

• docker/cli, 29.8.2 milestone
• moby/moby, 29.8.2 milestone

Security

This release fixes the following security vulnerabilities in Docker Engine:

• CVE-2026-53493: Pulling a crafted OCI image index with deeply nested or widely fanned-out descriptors could cause unbounded CPU and memory use. GHSA-pg57-6jwg-q645
• CVE-2026-92543: A malicious DNS response could make registry connections skip TLS certificate verification or fall back to HTTP, exposing registry credentials or allowing image substitution. GHSA-7cfq-22r6-qp73
• CVE-2026-92542: Unprivileged users on a Swarm node could inject forged Ethernet frames into encrypted overlay networks on peer nodes. GHSA-6m9p-4h64-m6vh

The BuildKit update fixes the following security vulnerabilities:

• CVE-2026-93315: A build step could redirect proxy CA cleanup outside the build root filesystem, block it with a special file, or let the build succeed when cleanup failed. GHSA-2f5p-x9ph-g97x
• CVE-2026-93316: A build that requested CDI devices could cause a daemon panic when CDI support was disabled, for example with "features": {"cdi": false} in daemon.json. GHSA-r456-g3gm-cvxf
• CVE-2026-93317: With the containerd image store, a client using the low-level LLB API could poison the build cache with container blob contents that did not match their claimed digest. GHSA-p3rc-w3hc-pqvv
• CVE-2026-93318: A malicious image could poison the build cache with layer DiffIDs that did not match the actual layer contents. GHSA-f2v9-hprr-32q3
• CVE-2026-93319: A malicious external frontend could crash the daemon through gateway container lifecycle races or malformed requests and definitions. GHSA-4hgw-qrhw-fhg8
• CVE-2026-93320: Daemon-side snapshot reads and LLB mkfile operations did not safely handle special files. GHSA-9728-qjrv-2xh2
• CVE-2026-93321: A malformed LLB file operation with invalid symlink owner inputs could crash the daemon. GHSA-fjj4-h6vf-m9hj
• CVE-2026-93322: A malformed LLB merge operation with mismatched input counts could crash the daemon. GHSA-cv6p-7w7g-xjwq
• CVE-2026-93323: An oversized Dockerfile, .dockerignore, gateway file, or nested LLB definition could exhaust daemon memory. GHSA-mgqf-486f-49vp
• CVE-2026-93326: A crafted Git build source could bypass source policy rules that match on the repository URL, through a Git bundle locator or a full remote URL that did not match the source identifier. GHSA-66hf-6vf5-87hc

Bug fixes and enhancements

• Fix docker cp failing on a container with a bind-mounted socket nested inside another bind mount. moby/moby#53724
• Fix docker info failing with an “invalid Prefix” error after reloading a daemon with custom default address pools. moby/moby#53812

Packaging updates

• Update BuildKit to v0.33.1. moby/moby#53823
• Update containerd (static binaries) to v2.3.6. moby/moby#53778
• Update runc (in static binaries) to v1.5.2. moby/moby#53811

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