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CVE-2016-8649
Published: May 1, 2017
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
lxc-attach in LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows an attacker inside of an unprivileged container to use an inherited file descriptor, of the host's /proc, to access the rest of the host's filesystem via the openat() family of syscalls.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 | affected LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 |
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398242
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1639345
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https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/81f466d05f2a89cb4f122ef7f593ff3f279b165c
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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845465
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https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649
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