CVE-2015-1335
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.2
Description
lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:1.0.8-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:1.0.8-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:1.0.8-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:1.0.8-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:1.0.8-1 |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 15.04 | affected | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170045.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171358.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/171364.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00023.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3400
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/29/4
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76894
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2753-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1476662
- https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/592fd47a6245508b79fe6ac819fe6d3b2c1289be
- https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2015-September/012434.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1335
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.