UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8649
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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8649
Published: 23 Nov 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
Upstream:
Aliases:
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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8649, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3136-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8649
Affected packages
Package
Name: lxc
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -1.0.8-0ubuntu0.4
Affected versions
1.0.0~alpha1-0ubuntu11
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu3
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu4
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu5
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu6
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu3
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu4
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu5
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu6
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu7
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu8
1.0.0~beta1-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~beta1-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~beta1-0ubuntu3
1.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~beta3-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~beta4-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~beta4-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~rc1-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~rc3-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~rc4-0ubuntu1
1.0.0-0ubuntu1
1.0.0-0ubuntu2
1.0.0-0ubuntu3
1.0.0-0ubuntu4
1.0.1-0ubuntu1
1.0.2-0ubuntu1
1.0.2-0ubuntu2
1.0.3-0ubuntu1
1.0.3-0ubuntu2
1.0.3-0ubuntu3
1.0.4-0ubuntu0.1
1.0.5-0ubuntu0.1
1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.2
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.5
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.6
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.7
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.9
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.10
1.0.8-0ubuntu0.3
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
