CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5985
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linuxcontainers lxc (<= 1.0.9)
• linuxcontainers lxc (>= 2.0.0 <= 2.0.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html Vendor Advisory