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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-25 High: libjpeg-turbo Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2019
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Gentoo GLSA 202001-03 details a vulnerability in libgcrypt that poses a risk of unauthorized access. Users are recommended to update for enhanced protection.
A vulnerability in libseccomp allows for privilege escalation.

Summary

Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo privilege escalation normal severity libseccomp

Resolution

All libseccomp users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/libseccomp-2.4.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2019-9893 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9893

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-18
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Normal
Title: libseccomp: Privilege escalation
Date: April 17, 2019
Bugs: #680442
ID: 201904-18

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo privilege escalation normal severity libseccomp

Synopsis

A vulnerability in libseccomp allows for privilege escalation.

Background

A library that provides an easy to use, platform independent, interface to the Linux Kernel's syscall filtering mechanism.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-libs/libseccomp < 2.4.0 >= 2.4.0

Impact

===== Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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