USN-3375-1: LXC vulnerability

Publication date

2 August 2017

Overview

LXC would allow unintended access.

Releases

14.04 LTS

Packages

It was discovered that LXC incorrectly handled the TIOCSTI ioctl. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to escape LXC containers.

After a standard system update you need to restart LXC containers to make all the necessary changes.

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
14.04 trusty	lxc – 1.0.10-0ubuntu1.1

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