CVE-2017-5985

Impact

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 products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676
• https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9
• https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676
• https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9
• https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html