USN-2809-1: LXD vulnerability

Publication date

12 November 2015

Overview

LXD could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Releases

15.10

Packages

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

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

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
15.10 wily	lxd – 0.20-0ubuntu4.1

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