DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8649

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8649
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8649.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8649
Upstream
Published
2017-05-01T06:59:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:37Z
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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / lxc

Package

Name
lxc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lxc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.0.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / lxc

Package

Name
lxc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lxc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.0.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / lxc

Package

Name
lxc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lxc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.0.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / lxc

Package

Name
lxc
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/lxc?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.0.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}