GLSA 201701-62: Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	01/24/2017
Bugs:	#604758
ID:	201701-62

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail, the worst of which may allow privilege escalation.

Background

A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
sys-apps/firejail	< 0.9.44.4	>= 0.9.44.4	All supported architectures
sys-apps/firejail-lts	< 0.9.38.8	>= 0.9.38.8	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

An attacker could possibly bypass sandbox protection, cause a Denial of Service condition, or escalate privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Firejail users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/firejail-0.9.44.4"

All Firejail-lts users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/firejail-lts-0.9.38.8"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201701-62.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.