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ELSA-2015-3065 Important: Oracle Linux lxc security update

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ELSA-2015-3065 Important: Oracle Linux lxc security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
08/01/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/04/2015
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

lxclock.c in LXC 1.1.2 and earlier allows local users to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /run/lock/lxc/*.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-lxc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-lxc-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-lxc-libs

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