CVE-2015-1335 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.

lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Linux

First reported 9 years ago

2015-10-01 20:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-05-31 21:29:00

Affected Software

Linux Containers LXC 1.1.0

1.1.0

Linux Containers LXC 1.1.1

1.1.1

Linux Containers LXC 1.1.2

1.1.2

Linux Containers LXC 1.1.3

1.1.3

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04

15.04

References

FEDORA-2015-9f8f4b182a

FEDORA-2015-211974138f

FEDORA-2015-ebfe46536f

openSUSE-SU-2019:1481

openSUSE-SU-2015:1717

DSA-3400

[oss-security] 20150929 Security issue in LXC (CVE-2015-1335)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

76894

USN-2753-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1476662

https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/592fd47a6245508b79fe6ac819fe6d3b2c1289be

[lxc-devel] 20150929 LXC security issue - affects all supported releases

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