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LIN9-4220 : Security Advisory - lxc - CVE-2016-8649

Created: May 14, 2017    Updated: May 29, 2018
Resolved Date: Aug 10, 2017
Found In Version: 9.0.0.6
Fix Version: 9.0.0.7
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8649

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