CVE-2017-5985 (GCVE-0-2017-5985)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-14 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:18
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2017-03-09 00:00
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