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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-47952: Observable Discrepancy

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-47952: Observable Discrepancy

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/01/2023
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

lxc-user-nic in lxc through 5.0.1 is installed setuid root, and may allow local users to infer whether any file exists, even within a protected directory tree, because "Failed to open" often indicates that a file does not exist, whereas "does not refer to a network namespace path" often indicates that a file exists. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2018-6556 because the CVE-2018-6556 fix design was based on the premise that "we will report back to the user that the open() failed but the user has no way of knowing why it failed"; however, in many realistic cases, there are no plausible reasons for failing except that the file does not exist.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-lxc

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