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Unscored USN-2753-3 0 CVEs

lxc regression

Published Oct 5, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

USN-2753-1 fixed a vulnerability in LXC. The update caused a regression
that prevented some containers from starting. This regression only
affected containers that had a path that contained a '/./' directory
specified as a bind mount target in their configuration file. This
update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Roman Fiedler discovered a directory traversal flaw in lxc-start. A local
attacker with access to an LXC container could exploit this flaw to run
programs inside the container that are not confined by AppArmor or expose
unintended files in the host to the container.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS lxc 1.0.7-0ubuntu0.7

References

  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1501491