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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-28">
  <title>Docker: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Docker could lead to the escalation of
    privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild"/>
  <announced>2016-12-11</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-12-11</revised>
  <bug>581236</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/docker" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.11.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.11.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Docker is the world’s leading software containerization platform.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Docker does not properly distinguish between numeric UIDs and string
      usernames.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Local attackers could possibly escalate their privileges.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Docker users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/docker-1.11.0"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3697">CVE-2016-3697</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-26T00:31:47Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-11T23:40:37Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>