libseccomp: Privilege escalation — GLSA 201904-18

A vulnerability in libseccomp allows for privilege escalation.

Affected packages

sys-libs/libseccomp on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.4.0
Unaffected versions >= 2.4.0

Background

A library that provides an easy to use, platform independent, interface to the Linux Kernel’s syscall filtering mechanism.

Description

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Impact

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Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libseccomp users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/libseccomp-2.4.0"
 

References

Release date
April 17, 2019

Latest revision
April 17, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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