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

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Mar 9, 2017

Added

Mar 10, 2017

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-lxcubuntu-upgrade-lxc-common

References

CVE-2017-5985
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-5985
CWE-862
EUVD-EUVD-2017-15054
NVD-CVE-2017-5985
UBUNTU-USN-3224-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-15054

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