vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2988-1 (CVE-2016-1581): LXD vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 31, 2016
Added
May 31, 2016
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

Robie Basak discovered that LXD incorrectly set permissions when setting up
a loop based ZFS pool. A local attacker could use this issue to copy and
read the data of any LXD container. (CVE-2016-1581)

Robie Basak discovered that LXD incorrectly set permissions when switching
an unprivileged container into privileged mode. A local attacker could use
this issue to access any world readable path in the container directory,
including setuid binaries. (CVE-2016-1582)

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-lxd
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