Executive Summary

Summary
Title LXD vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2809-1 First vendor Publication 2015-11-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-11-12
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.10

Summary:

LXD could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - lxd: Container hypervisor based on LXC

Details:

Jeroen Simonetti discovered that LXD incorrectly set socket permissions. A local attacker could use this issue to escalate privileges.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10:
lxd 0.20-0ubuntu4.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2809-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1515689

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxd/0.20-0ubuntu4.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2809-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

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Date Description
2015-11-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2809-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2015-11-19 00:23:07
  • Multiple Updates
2015-11-17 21:28:57
  • Multiple Updates
2015-11-14 13:25:53
  • Multiple Updates
2015-11-12 21:22:24
  • First insertion