DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8649

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8649

    Published: 1 May 2017Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-8649

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: lxc

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/lxc?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:2.0.6-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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