USN-2809-1: LXD vulnerability

12 November 2015

LXD could be made to run programs as an administrator.

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

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

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

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