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openSUSE Security Update : lxc (openSUSE-2017-463)

low Nessus Plugin ID 99327

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for lxc fixes the following issues :

This security issue was fixed :

CVE-2017-5985: lxc-user-nic allowed access to network namespace over which the caller did not hold privilege (boo#1028264).

Solution

Update the affected lxc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028264

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 99327

File Name: openSUSE-2017-463.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/13/2017

Updated: 12/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5985

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxc-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:lxc-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5985