Bug 1431557 (CVE-2017-5985) - CVE-2017-5985 lxc: lxc-user-nic didn't verify network namespace ownership
Summary: CVE-2017-5985 lxc: lxc-user-nic didn't verify network namespace ownership
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5985
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1431558 1431559
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-03-13 09:44 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-10-21 11:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 11:52:03 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-03-13 09:44:02 UTC
It was found that lxc-user-nic could potentially have been tricked into operating on a network namespace over which the caller did not hold privilege.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/576
https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-users/2017-March/012925.html

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-03-13 09:44:53 UTC
Created lxc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1431559]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1431558]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2017-07-30 19:46:45 UTC
lxc-1.0.10-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2017-07-30 19:50:23 UTC
lxc-1.0.10-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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