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CVE-2017-5985
Published: Mar 14, 2017
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[lxc-devel] 20170309 Security fix for CVE-2017-5985 (lxc-user-nic)
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9
x_refsource_CONFIRM
96777
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676
x_refsource_CONFIRM
USN-3224-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
[oss-security] 20170309 LXC: CVE-2017-5985: lxc-user-nic didn't verify network namespace ownership
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
openSUSE-SU-2019:1481
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
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