Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202101-02

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Firejail, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

sys-apps/firejail on all architectures
Affected versions < 0.9.64
Unaffected versions >= 0.9.64

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.

Description

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

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

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-0.9.64"
 

References

Release date
January 10, 2021

Latest revision
January 10, 2021: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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