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Debian: CVE-2017-5985: lxc -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 14, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

lxc-user-nic in Linux Containers (LXC) allows local users with a lxc-usernet allocation to create network interfaces on the host and choose the name of those interfaces by leveraging lack of netns ownership check.

Solution

debian-upgrade-lxc
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