CVE-2017-5985

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5985
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5985.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5985
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-03-14T17:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-21T04:19:49.464533Z
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
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

Git / github.com/lxc/lxc

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/lxc/lxc
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9

Affected versions

lxc-0.*

lxc-0.6.5
lxc-0.7.0
lxc-0.7.1
lxc-0.7.2
lxc-0.7.3
lxc-0.7.4
lxc-0.7.4-rc1
lxc-0.7.5
lxc-0.8.0
lxc-0.8.0-rc2
lxc-0.9.0
lxc-0.9.0.alpha1
lxc-0.9.0.alpha2
lxc-0.9.0.alpha3
lxc-0.9.0.rc1

lxc-1.*

lxc-1.0.0
lxc-1.0.0.alpha1
lxc-1.0.0.alpha2
lxc-1.0.0.alpha3
lxc-1.0.0.beta1
lxc-1.0.0.beta2
lxc-1.0.0.beta3
lxc-1.0.0.beta4
lxc-1.0.0.rc1
lxc-1.0.0.rc2
lxc-1.0.0.rc3
lxc-1.0.0.rc4
lxc-1.1.0
lxc-1.1.0.alpha1
lxc-1.1.0.alpha2
lxc-1.1.0.alpha3
lxc-1.1.0.rc1
lxc-1.1.0.rc2
lxc-1.1.0.rc3
lxc-1.1.0.rc4

lxc-2.*

lxc-2.0.0
lxc-2.0.0.beta1
lxc-2.0.0.beta2
lxc-2.0.0.rc1
lxc-2.0.0.rc10
lxc-2.0.0.rc11
lxc-2.0.0.rc12
lxc-2.0.0.rc13
lxc-2.0.0.rc14
lxc-2.0.0.rc15
lxc-2.0.0.rc2
lxc-2.0.0.rc3
lxc-2.0.0.rc4
lxc-2.0.0.rc5
lxc-2.0.0.rc6
lxc-2.0.0.rc7
lxc-2.0.0.rc8
lxc-2.0.0.rc9

Other

lxc_0_1_0
lxc_0_2_0
lxc_0_2_1
lxc_0_4_0
lxc_0_5_0
lxc_0_5_1
lxc_0_5_2
lxc_0_6_0
lxc_0_6_1
lxc_0_6_2
lxc_0_6_3
lxc_0_6_4

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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