Tracker miners: Sandbox weakness — GLSA 202505-10

A vulnerability has been discovered in Tracker miners, which can lead to a sandbox escape and execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

app-misc/tracker-miners on all architectures
Affected versions < 3.5.3
Unaffected versions >= 3.5.3

Background

The Tracker miners are a collection of data extractors for the GNOME Tracker.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Tracker minders. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Tracker miners users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/tracker-miners-3.5.3"
 

References

Release date
May 14, 2025

Latest revision
May 14, 2025: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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