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USN-2753-1: LXC vulnerability

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USN-2753-1: LXC vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/29/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/30/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-lxc

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