UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5985

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5985
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5985.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5985
Upstream
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-03-09T16:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:44:08Z
Severity
  • 3.3 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

lxc-user-nic in Linux Containers (LXC) allows local users with a lxc-usernet allocation to create network interfaces on the host and choose the name of those interfaces by leveraging lack of netns ownership check.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / lxc

Package

Name
lxc
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/lxc@1.0.9-0ubuntu3?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.0.9-0ubuntu3

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0~alpha1-0ubuntu11
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu3
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu4
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu5
1.0.0~alpha2-0ubuntu6
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu3
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu4
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu5
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu6
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu7
1.0.0~alpha3-0ubuntu8
1.0.0~beta1-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~beta1-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~beta1-0ubuntu3
1.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~beta3-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~beta4-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~beta4-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~rc1-0ubuntu2
1.0.0~rc3-0ubuntu1
1.0.0~rc4-0ubuntu1
1.0.0-0ubuntu1
1.0.0-0ubuntu2
1.0.0-0ubuntu3
1.0.0-0ubuntu4
1.0.1-0ubuntu1
1.0.2-0ubuntu1
1.0.2-0ubuntu2
1.0.3-0ubuntu1
1.0.3-0ubuntu2
1.0.3-0ubuntu3
1.0.4-0ubuntu0.1
1.0.5-0ubuntu0.1
1.0.6-0ubuntu0.1
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.2
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.5
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.6
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.7
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.9
1.0.7-0ubuntu0.10
1.0.8-0ubuntu0.3
1.0.8-0ubuntu0.4
1.0.9-0ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "liblxc1",
            "binary_version": "1.0.9-0ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc",
            "binary_version": "1.0.9-0ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.0.9-0ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc-templates",
            "binary_version": "1.0.9-0ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc-tests",
            "binary_version": "1.0.9-0ubuntu3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-lxc",
            "binary_version": "1.0.9-0ubuntu3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5985.json"

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / lxc

Package

Name
lxc
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/lxc@2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.4-0ubuntu1
1.1.4-0ubuntu1.1
1.1.4-0ubuntu3
1.1.5-0ubuntu1
1.1.5-0ubuntu2
1.1.5-0ubuntu3
1.1.5-0ubuntu4
1.1.5-0ubuntu5
1.1.5-0ubuntu6

2.*

2.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu2
2.0.0~rc1-0ubuntu1
2.0.0~rc2-0ubuntu2
2.0.0~rc3-0ubuntu1
2.0.0~rc3-0ubuntu2
2.0.0~rc3-0ubuntu3
2.0.0~rc4-0ubuntu1
2.0.0~rc5-0ubuntu1
2.0.0~rc9-0ubuntu1
2.0.0~rc10-0ubuntu1
2.0.0~rc10-0ubuntu2
2.0.0~rc11-0ubuntu1
2.0.0~rc12-0ubuntu1
2.0.0~rc13-0ubuntu2
2.0.0~rc14-0ubuntu2
2.0.0~rc15-0ubuntu1
2.0.0-0ubuntu1
2.0.0-0ubuntu2
2.0.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.1
2.0.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1
2.0.4-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.2
2.0.5-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1
2.0.5-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.2
2.0.5-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.3
2.0.6-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1
2.0.6-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.2
2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "liblxc1",
            "binary_version": "2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lua-lxc",
            "binary_version": "2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc",
            "binary_version": "2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc-common",
            "binary_version": "2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc-templates",
            "binary_version": "2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc-tests",
            "binary_version": "2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "lxc1",
            "binary_version": "2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-lxc",
            "binary_version": "2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5985.json"