CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8649
9.1 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• linuxcontainers lxc (< 1.0.9)
• linuxcontainers lxc (>= 2.0.0 < 2.0.6)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- 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
- 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