CVE-2015-1335 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1335?

CVE-2015-1335 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 1 Oct 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

lxc-start in lxc before 1.0.8 and 1.1.x before 1.1.4 allows local container administrators to escape AppArmor confinement via a symlink attack on a (1) mount target or (2) bind mount source.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1335?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linuxcontainers Lxc.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1335?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2015-1335 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1335 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1335, DSA-3400-1, GHSA-6jr3-ph3x-8q66, MGASA-2016-0036, SUSE-SU-2015:1829-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1335 and 1 more.