USN-3136-1: LXC vulnerability

23 November 2016

LXC could be made to allow containers to access to the host filesystem.

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Releases

Packages

  • lxc - Linux Containers userspace tools

Details

Roman Fiedler discovered a directory traversal flaw in lxc-attach. An
attacker with access to an LXC container could exploit this flaw to access
files outside of the container.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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