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

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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
05/31/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/31/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

LXD before 2.0.2 uses world-readable permissions for /var/lib/lxd/zfs.img when setting up a loop based ZFS pool, which allows local users to copy and read data from arbitrary containers via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-lxd

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