Improper Access Control Affecting lxc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-LXC-385881
  • published 9 Jan 2017
  • disclosed 9 Jan 2017

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 lxc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lxc package and not the lxc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Linux Containers (LXC) before 2016-02-22. When executing a program via lxc-attach, the nonpriv session can escape to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the terminal's input buffer, allowing an attacker to escape the container.