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Fedora 23 LXC Security Update: Critical Directory Traversal Issue

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23's LXC security patch addresses a critical path traversal vulnerability, enhancing the overall resource containment for containers. Discover additional details here.
Update LXC to the latest stable release

Summary

Update Information:

Update LXC to the latest stable release. The full list of changes can be found [here](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/news/#lxc-114-release-announcement6th-of-october-2015).

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora directory traversal resource management lxc container isolation

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1267844 - CVE-2015-1335 lxc: Directory traversal flaw when lxc-start is initially setting up the mounts for a container https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267844

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update lxc' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: lxc
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.1.4
Release: 2.fc23
URL: https://linuxcontainers.org/
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security advisory fedora directory traversal resource management lxc container isolation

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