CVE-2015-1335: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only
  • Linuxcontainers Lxc: up to and including 1.0.7; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only

Published 2015-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.