CVE-2018-6556

CVE-2018-6556 affects lxc-user-nic where, when asked to delete a network interface, the code unconditionally opens a user-supplied path. This can let an unprivileged user infer the existence of a path they should not reach and may trigger side effects by opening (read-only) kernel files such as /...

CVE-2018-6556

lxc-user-nic when asked to delete a network interface will unconditionally open a user provided path. This code path may be used by an unprivileged user to check for the existence of a path which they wouldn't otherwise be able to reach. It may also be used to trigger side effects by causing a...

CVE-2018-6556

lxc-user-nic when asked to delete a network interface will unconditionally open a user provided path. This code path may be used by an unprivileged user to check for the existence of a path which they wouldn't otherwise be able to reach. It may also be used to trigger side effects by causing a...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3730-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : LXC vulnerability (USN-3730-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3730-1 advisory. Matthias Gerstner discovered that LXC incorrectly handled the lxc-user-nic utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to open arbitrary files. Tenabl...

USN-3730-1 lxc vulnerability

Matthias Gerstner discovered that LXC incorrectly handled the lxc-user-nic utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to open arbitrary files...

CVE-2018-6556

lxc-user-nic when asked to delete a network interface will unconditionally open a user provided path. This code path may be used by an unprivileged user to check for the existence of a path which they wouldn't otherwise be able to reach. It may also be used to trigger side effects by causing a...

Code injection

lxc-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...

CVE-2017-5985

lxc-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...

CVE-2017-5985

CVE-2017-5985 affects LXC’s lxc-user-nic component, where missing netns ownership checks let a local user with a lxc-usernet allocation create host interfaces and pick their names. The issue is documented across multiple vendors and advisories (openSUSE, Mageia, Arch Linux) with fixes in updated ...

CVE-2017-5985

lxc-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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5985

lxc-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...