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openSUSE 15 SP4: Security Update for Firejail - Important Fix

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Updates addressing firejail security flaws are now released on openSUSE. Explore the protective steps taken.
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 and...

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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-SP4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2022-10016=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

firejail-0.9.70-bp154.2.3.1

firejail-bash-completion-0.9.70-bp154.2.3.1

firejail-zsh-completion-0.9.70-bp154.2.3.1

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1199148

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:10016-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 .

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