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CVE-2016-8649 Detail

Description

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.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  9.1 CRITICAL
Vector:  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H


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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94498 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845465 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1639345 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398242 Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/81f466d05f2a89cb4f122ef7f593ff3f279b165c Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-8649
NVD Published Date:
05/01/2017
NVD Last Modified:
10/26/2018
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.