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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-202105-19.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202105-19">
<title>Firejail: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in Firejail which may allow local
attackers to gain root privileges.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">firejail</product>
<announced>2021-05-26</announced>
<revised count="1">2021-05-26</revised>
<bug>769542</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-apps/firejail" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.9.64.4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.9.64.4</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>It was discovered that a flaw in Firejails OverlayFS code allowed
restricted programs to escape sandbox.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>A local attacker could obtain arbitrary file system access via an
application running within a Firejail sandbox, possibly resulting in
privilege escalation.
</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-0.9.64.4"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26910">CVE-2021-26910</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2021-05-25T20:22:19Z">whissi</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2021-05-26T08:38:46Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>