CVE-2015-1331

Summary

CVECVE-2015-1331
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-08-12 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-05-31 21:29:00 UTC
Descriptionlxclock.c in LXC 1.1.2 and earlier allows local users to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /run/lock/lxc/*.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Linuxcontainers Lxc All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3317-1 lxc DEBIAN www.debian.org
404 Not Found MISC service.ait.ac.at
openSUSE-SU-2015:1315-1: moderate: Security update for lxc SUSE lists.opensuse.org
LXC CVE-2015-1331 Local Directory Traversal Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1481-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE-2015-1331: lxclock: use /run/lxc/lock rather than /run/lock/lxc · lxc/lxc@72cf81f · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
USN-2675-1: LXC vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Bug #1470842 “lxc tools lock handling vulnerable to symlink atta...” : Bugs : lxc package : Ubuntu CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Exploit
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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