CVE-2017-5985

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.

References

https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html

https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3