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Debian: DSA-5080-1 Critical: Snapd Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2022
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Enhance your snapd installation on Debian to resolve various access control vulnerabilities and mitigate potential privilege escalation threats.
Multiple vulnerabilties were discovered in snapd, a daemon and tooling that enable Snap packages, which could result in bypass of access restrictions or privilege escalation

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilties were discovered in snapd, a daemon and tooling
that enable Snap packages, which could result in bypass of access
restrictions or privilege escalation.

For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.37.4-1+deb10u1.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.49-1+deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your snapd packages.

For the detailed security status of snapd please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/snapd

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: snapd
CVE ID: CVE-2021-44730 CVE-2021-44731

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