LXC User-NIC Vulnerability: Unauthorized Network Interface Creation and Naming

CVE-2017-5985 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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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