CVE-2016-8649 (GCVE-0-2016-8649)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-01 06:08
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity ?
CWE
  • container bypass
Summary
lxc-attach in LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 allows an attacker inside of an unprivileged container to use an inherited file descriptor, of the host's /proc, to access the rest of the host's filesystem via the openat() family of syscalls.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6 Version: LXC before 1.0.9 and 2.x before 2.0.6
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