Mageia 7 MGASA-2020-0136 Moderate: Libseccomp Access Restrictions Bypass
mageia
March 10, 2020
Updated libseccomp packages fix security vulnerability: Jann Horn discovered that libseccomp did not correctly generate 64-bit syscall argument comparisons with arithmetic operato...
Summary
Updated libseccomp packages fix security vulnerability:
Jann Horn discovered that libseccomp did not correctly generate 64-bit
syscall argument comparisons with arithmetic operators (LT, GT, LE, GE).
An attacker could use this to bypass intended access restrictions for
argument-filtered system calls (CVE-2019-9893).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24523
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4001-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9893
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/libseccomp-2.4.2-1.mga7
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Publication date: 10 Mar 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0136.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-9893
Topics Covered
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