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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8649

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 lxc

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.0.6-1"}]}]

Debian:13 lxc

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.0.6-1"}]}]

Debian:14 lxc

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2.0.6-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org