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CVE-2015-1331

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

lxclock.c in LXC 1.1.2 and earlier allows local users to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /run/lock/lxc/*.

Affected products

• lxc: through 1.1.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00066.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3317
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75999
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2675-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1470842
• https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/72cf81f6a3404e35028567db2c99a90406e9c6e6
• https://service.ait.ac.at/security/2015/LxcSecurityAnalysis.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00073.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00066.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3317
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75999

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