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Ubuntu: USN-3224-1 (CVE-2017-5985): LXC vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3224-1 (CVE-2017-5985): LXC vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/09/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/10/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

lxc-user-nic in Linux Containers (LXC) allows local users with a lxc-usernet allocation to create network interfaces on the host and choose the name of those interfaces by leveraging lack of netns ownership check.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-lxc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-lxc-common

References

  • USN-3224-1
  • CVE-2017-5985

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