CVE-2016-8649
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8649
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8649.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8649
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-05-01T06:59:00.157Z
- Modified
- 2026-06-18T04:03:34.824510655Z
- Severity
-
- 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- 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
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94498
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845465
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1639345
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398242
- https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/81f466d05f2a89cb4f122ef7f593ff3f279b165c
Affected packages
Git / github.com/lxc/lxc
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/lxc/lxc
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroducedFixedFixed
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:linuxcontainers:lxc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "fixed": "1.0.9" }, { "introduced": "2.0.0" }, { "fixed": "2.0.6" } ], "source": [ "CPE_RANGE", "REFERENCES" ] }
Affected versions
lxc-0.*
lxc-0.6.5
lxc-0.7.0
lxc-0.7.1
lxc-0.7.2
lxc-0.7.3
lxc-0.7.4
lxc-0.7.4-rc1
lxc-0.7.5
lxc-0.8.0
lxc-0.8.0-rc2
lxc-0.9.0
lxc-0.9.0.alpha1
lxc-0.9.0.alpha2
lxc-0.9.0.alpha3
lxc-0.9.0.rc1
lxc-1.*
lxc-1.0.0
lxc-1.0.0.alpha1
lxc-1.0.0.alpha2
lxc-1.0.0.alpha3
lxc-1.0.0.beta1
lxc-1.0.0.beta2
lxc-1.0.0.beta3
lxc-1.0.0.beta4
lxc-1.0.0.rc1
lxc-1.0.0.rc2
lxc-1.0.0.rc3
lxc-1.0.0.rc4
lxc-1.0.1
lxc-1.0.2
lxc-1.0.3
lxc-1.0.4
lxc-1.0.5
lxc-1.0.6
lxc-1.0.7
lxc-1.0.8
lxc-2.*
lxc-2.0.0
lxc-2.0.1
lxc-2.0.2
lxc-2.0.3
lxc-2.0.4
lxc-2.0.5
Other
lxc_0_1_0
lxc_0_2_0
lxc_0_2_1
lxc_0_4_0
lxc_0_5_0
lxc_0_5_1
lxc_0_5_2
lxc_0_6_0
lxc_0_6_1
lxc_0_6_2
lxc_0_6_3
lxc_0_6_4