FKIE_CVE-2016-8649
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-05-01 06:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:54
Severity
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linuxcontainers | lxc | * | |
| linuxcontainers | lxc | * |
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"lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:54:44.587",
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