Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20120055000
Revision Date:2012-01-18Version:1
Title:CVE-2012-0055 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:Using overlayfs with lxc causes tty problems that can kill X. Overlayfs needs to honor the necessary cgroup permission calls. Andy Whitcroft discovered a that the Overlayfs filesystem was not doing the extended permission checks needed by cgroups and Linux Security Modules (LSMs). A local user could exploit this to by-pass security policy and access files that should not be accessible.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2012-0055
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-aws' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-flo' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-gke' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-goldfish' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-hwe' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-hwe-edge' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-mako' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-raspi2' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-snapdragon' package in xenial is not affected.
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