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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-48">
  <title>Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail, the
    worst of which may allow bypassing of sandbox protection.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">firejail</product>
  <announced>2016-12-27</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-12-27</revised>
  <bug>601994</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/firejail" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.44.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.44.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="sys-apps/firejail-lts" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.38.6</unaffected>
    </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>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail. Please review
      upstream’s release notes below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly bypass sandbox protection, cause a
      Denial of Service condition, or change a system’s DNS server.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Firejail users should switch to the newly added LTS version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/firejail-lts-0.9.38.6"
    </code>
    
    <p>Users who want to stay on the current branch should upgrade to the
      latest version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/firejail-0.9.44.2"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/release-notes/">
      Firejail Release Notes
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-12-05T02:08:23Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-27T00:43:05Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>