CVE-2015-1340

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-1340
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-04-22 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:13:00 UTC
DescriptionLXD before version 0.19-0ubuntu5 doUidshiftIntoContainer() has an unsafe Chmod() call that races against the stat in the Filepath.Walk() function. A symbolic link created in that window could cause any file on the system to have any mode of the attacker's choice.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Linuxcontainers Lxd - All All All
Application Linuxcontainers Lxd - All All All

References

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CVE-2015-1340: Fix race condition between fchown and chmod in idmapset · lxc/lxd@19c6961 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
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