Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities

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

An attacker could possibly bypass sandbox protection, cause a Denial of Service condition, or escalate privileges.

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-0.9.44.4"

All Firejail-lts users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/firejail-lts-0.9.38.8"