CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-6556

Published: Aug 10, 2018 | Modified: May 31, 2019
CVSS 3.x
3.3
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

lxc-user-nic when asked to delete a network interface will unconditionally open a user provided path. This code path may be used by an unprivileged user to check for the existence of a path which they wouldnt otherwise be able to reach. It may also be used to trigger side effects by causing a (read-only) open of special kernel files (ptmx, proc, sys). Affected releases are LXC: 2.0 versions above and including 2.0.9; 3.0 versions above and including 3.0.0, prior to 3.0.2.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 18.04 (including) 18.04 (including)

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