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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.

Published

2017-03-14T17:59:00.183

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 3.3 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-862

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	linuxcontainers	lxc	≤ 1.0.9	Yes
Application	linuxcontainers	lxc	≤ 2.0.6	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9 Issue Tracking, Patch ([email protected])
https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9 Issue Tracking, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)