CVE-2017-5985 - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Linuxcontainers	Lxc

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:linuxcontainers:lxc::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:linuxcontainers:lxc::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
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

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-14T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:18:49.414Z

Reserved: 2017-02-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-5985

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-14T17:59:00.183

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-5985

Redhat

No data.

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