CVE-2016-8649

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-8649
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-05-01 06:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-26 13:53:00 UTC
Descriptionlxc-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Linuxcontainers Lxc All All All All
Application Linuxcontainers Lxc All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1398242 – (CVE-2016-8649) CVE-2016-8649 lxc: lxc-attach to malicious container allows access to host CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch
LXC CVE-2016-8649 Directory Traversal Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE-2016-8649 CONFIRM security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
attach: do not send procfd to attached process · lxc/lxc@81f466d · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Bug #1639345 “lxc-attach to malicious container allows access to...” : Bugs : lxc package : Ubuntu CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Third Party Advisory
#845465 - lxc: CVE-2016-8649: attach: do not send procfd to attached process - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org Third Party Advisory
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