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From: Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o>
To: gentoo-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201701-62 ] Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:39:36
Message-Id: f7981e09-dfa5-99f1-bac4-f8c592a66288@gentoo.org
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities
9 Date: January 24, 2017
10 Bugs: #604758
11 ID: 201701-62
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15 Synopsis
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18 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail, the worst of
19 which may allow privilege escalation.
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21 Background
22 ==========
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24 A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by
25 restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using
26 Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
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28 Affected packages
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32 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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34 1 sys-apps/firejail < 0.9.44.4 >= 0.9.44.4
35 2 sys-apps/firejail-lts < 0.9.38.8 >= 0.9.38.8
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37 2 affected packages
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39 Description
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42 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail. Please
43 review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
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45 Impact
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48 An attacker could possibly bypass sandbox protection, cause a Denial of
49 Service condition, or escalate privileges.
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51 Workaround
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54 There is no known workaround at this time.
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56 Resolution
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59 All Firejail users should upgrade to the latest version:
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61 # emerge --sync
62 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/firejail-0.9.44.4"
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64 All Firejail-lts users should upgrade to the latest version:
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66 # emerge --sync
67 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/firejail-lts-0.9.38.8"
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69 References
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72 [ 1 ] CVE-2017-5180
73 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5180
74 [ 2 ] CVE-2017-5206
75 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5206
76 [ 3 ] CVE-2017-5207
77 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5207
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79 Availability
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82 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
83 the Gentoo Security Website:
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85 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-62
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87 Concerns?
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90 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
91 confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
92 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
93 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
94 https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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96 License
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99 Copyright 2017 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
100 belongs to its owner(s).
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102 The contents of this document are licensed under the
103 Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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105 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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