CVE-2017-5985

Publication date 9 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.3 · Low

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
lxc 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.10.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.0.7-0ubuntu1~16.04.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.0.9-0ubuntu3
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
lxc

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 3.3 · Low

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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