Vulnerability CVE-2017-5985
Published: 2017-03-14

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-862

 (Missing Authorization)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Linuxcontainers -> LXC 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/09/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96777
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3224-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676
https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9
https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2017-March/015535.html
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