USN-2451-1

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    USN-2451-1

    Published: 6 Jan 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: cgmanager vulnerability

    Details: Serge Hallyn discovered that cgmanager did not consistently enforce proper nesting when modifying cgroup properties. A local attacker in a privileged container could use this to set cgroup values for all cgroups.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2451-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1425

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cgmanager

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.24-0ubuntu7.1

    Affected versions

    0.16-0ubuntu1

    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