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CVE-2015-1344

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The do_write_pids function in lxcfs.c in LXCFS before 0.12 does not properly check permissions, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing a pid to the tasks file.

Affected products

• Canonical Lxcfs: through 0.11
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 15.04, 15.10

References

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2813-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxcfs/+bug/1512854
• https://github.com/lxc/lxcfs/commit/8ee2a503e102b1a43ec4d83113dc275ab20a869a
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2813-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxcfs/+bug/1512854
• https://github.com/lxc/lxcfs/commit/8ee2a503e102b1a43ec4d83113dc275ab20a869a

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