Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lxc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1510-LXC-627669
  • published1 Oct 2015
  • disclosed1 Oct 2015

Introduced: 1 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-1335  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lxc package and not the lxc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.