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Docker: CVE-2014-9357: Escalation of privileges during decompression of LZMA (.xz) archives

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Docker: CVE-2014-9357: Escalation of privileges during decompression of LZMA (.xz) archives

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/16/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/04/2017
Modified
05/04/2017

Description

Docker 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges via a crafted (1) image or (2) build in a Dockerfile in an LZMA (.xz) archive, related to the chroot for archive extraction.

Solution(s)

  • docker-cve-2014-9357-1

References

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