CVE-2016-8649

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.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649

https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/81f466d05f2a89cb4f122ef7f593ff3f279b165c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398242

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1639345

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845465

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94498

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3