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openSUSE: 2022:10015-1 Important: Firejail Root Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This significant release for Fedora addresses a privilege escalation vulnerability in firejail and enhances overall security measures.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for firejail fixes the following issues:

firejail was updated to version 0.9.70:

-CVE-2022-31214: - root escalation in --join logic (boo#1199148) Reported

by Matthias Gerstner, working exploit code was provided to our

development team. In the same time frame, the problem was independently

reported by Birk Blechschmidt. Full working exploit code was also

provided.

- feature: enable shell tab completion with --tab (#4936)

- feature: disable user profiles at compile time (#4990)

- feature: Allow resolution of .local names with avahi-daemon in the

apparmor

- profile (#5088)

- feature: always log seccomp errors (#5110)

- feature: firecfg --guide, guided user configuration (#5111)

- feature: --oom, kernel OutOfMemory-killer (#5122)

- modif: --ids feature needs to be enabled at compile time (#5155)

- modif: --nettrace only available to root user

- rework: whitelist restructuring (#4985)

- rework: firemon, speed up...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2022-10015=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

firejail-0.9.70-bp153.2.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31214.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1199148

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:10015-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 .

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