cve-2016-8649
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-01 06:08
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity ?
Summary
lxc-attach in LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows an attacker inside of an unprivileged container to use an inherited file descriptor, of the host's /proc, to access the rest of the host's filesystem via the openat() family of syscalls.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94498Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845465Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1639345Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398242Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/81f466d05f2a89cb4f122ef7f593ff3f279b165cPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94498Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845465Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1639345Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398242Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/81f466d05f2a89cb4f122ef7f593ff3f279b165cPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 Version: LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6
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