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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201702-03">
  <title>Firejail: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>Firejail is vulnerable to the escalation of privileges due to an
    incomplete fix for CVE-2017-5180.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">firejail</product>
  <announced>2017-02-09</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-02-09</revised>
  <bug>607382</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/firejail" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.44.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.44.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="sys-apps/firejail-lts" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.38.10</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.38.10</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting
      the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces
      and seccomp-bpf.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>The unaffected packages listed in GLSA 201612-48 had an incomplete fix
      as reported by Sebastian Krahmer of SuSE. This has been properly patched
      in the latest releases.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>An attacker could possibly bypass sandbox protection, cause a Denial of
      Service condition, or escalate privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Firejail users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/firejail-0.9.44.8"
    </code>
    
    <p>All Firejail-lts users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/firejail-lts-0.9.38.10"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-5940">CVE-2017-5940</uri>
    <uri link="https://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/release-notes/">
      Firejail Release Notes
    </uri>
    <uri link="https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-48">GLSA 201612-48</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-30T13:28:16Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-02-09T15:35:45Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>