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LXC CVE-2015-1335 Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 76894
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2015-1335
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Author: Roman Fiedler (Austrian Institute of Technology)

SUMMARY

An attacker can use readily available commands and tools to exploit this issue.

VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION

LXC is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this issue using directory-traversal characters (‘../’) to access or read arbitrary files that contain sensitive information or to access files outside of the restricted directory to obtain sensitive information and perform other attacks.

VULNERABLE VERSIONS

  • Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 15.04
  • Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS
  • Oracle Linux 0
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 7
  • LXC LXC 1.1
  • LXC LXC 1.0.0
  • Debian Linux 6.0 sparc
  • Debian Linux 6.0 s/390
  • Debian Linux 6.0 powerpc
  • Debian Linux 6.0 mips
  • Debian Linux 6.0 ia-64
  • Debian Linux 6.0 ia-32
  • Debian Linux 6.0 arm
  • Debian Linux 6.0 amd64

MITIGATION

Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

References