Upstream information

CVE-2022-47952 at MITRE

Description

lxc-user-nic in lxc through 5.0.1 is installed setuid root, and may allow local users to infer whether any file exists, even within a protected directory tree, because "Failed to open" often indicates that a file does not exist, whereas "does not refer to a network namespace path" often indicates that a file exists. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2018-6556 because the CVE-2018-6556 fix design was based on the premise that "we will report back to the user that the open() failed but the user has no way of knowing why it failed"; however, in many realistic cases, there are no plausible reasons for failing except that the file does not exist.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 3.3 6.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required Low None
User Interaction None Required
Scope Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality Impact Low High
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact None None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1206779 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • liblxc-devel >= 5.0.2-1.1
  • liblxc1 >= 5.0.2-1.1
  • lxc >= 5.0.2-1.1
  • lxc-bash-completion >= 5.0.2-1.1
  • lxc-ja-doc >= 5.0.2-1.1
  • lxc-ko-doc >= 5.0.2-1.1
  • pam_cgfs >= 5.0.2-1.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA liblxc-devel-5.0.2-1.1


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 lxc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 lxc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS lxc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 lxc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS lxc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 lxc Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 lxc Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sun Jan 1 15:00:28 2023
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 21:30:56 2023