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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 10:55:12 -0600
From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@...ntu.com>
Subject: LXC: CVE-2017-5985: lxc-user-nic didn't verify network namespace
 ownership

Jann Horn discovered that the lxc-user-nic program could be tricked into
operating on a network namespace over which the caller did not hold
privilege.

The behavior didn't follow what was documented in the lxc-user-nic(1)
man page:

 It ensures that the calling user is privileged over the network
 namespace to which the interface will be attached.

This issue is CVE-2017-5985.

https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-users/2017-March/012925.html
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1654676
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9

Tyler




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