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Ubuntu: USN-2988-1 (CVE-2016-1582): LXD vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2988-1 (CVE-2016-1582): 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 does not properly set permissions when switching an unprivileged container into privileged mode, which allows local users to access arbitrary world readable paths in the container directory via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-lxd

References

  • USN-2988-1
  • CVE-2016-1582

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