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USN-2675-1: LXC vulnerabilities

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USN-2675-1: LXC vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
07/22/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/23/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblxc1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-lxc

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