Maher Azzouzi discovered that LXC did not correctly handle logging certain failure messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-47952)
Sam Sanoop discovered that LXC did not correctly handle certain forms of user authorization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-39402)
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