ubuntu · CVE-2017-5985

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-03-09 16:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:35:36 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-5985 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (lxc), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): released 3, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1.

Description:

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.

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