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CVE-2016-8649

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 inh

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.

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1 EPSS 0.02154
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

2
linuxcontainers lxc< 1.0.9
linuxcontainers lxc>= 2.0.0 and < 2.0.6
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Scoring & Timeline

9.1
CRITICAL · CVSS v3.0 · secalert@redhat.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD01 May 2017 · 06:59 AM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Advisories

2
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10416-1
usnUSN-3136-1
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References & Sources

6
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94498Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845465Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1639345Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398242Issue TrackingPatch
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/81f466d05f2a89cb4f122ef7f593ff3f279b165cPatchVendor Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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