CVE-2017-5985

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-5985
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-14 17:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
Descriptionlxc-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-862

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2017-5985: Ensure target netns is caller-owned · lxc/lxc@16af238 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1481-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
LXC 'lxc/lxc_user_nic.c' Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[lxc-devel] Security fix for CVE-2017-5985 (lxc-user-nic) MLIST lists.linuxcontainers.org Vendor Advisory
Bug #1654676 “lxc-user-nic does not ensure that target netns is ...” : Bugs : lxc package : Ubuntu CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Third Party Advisory
USN-3224-1: LXC vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
oss-security - LXC: CVE-2017-5985: lxc-user-nic didn't verify network namespace ownership MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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