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Debian: CVE-2016-8649: lxc -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-8649: lxc -- security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/01/2017
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-lxc

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