Firejail: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail, the worst of which may allow bypassing of sandbox protection. firejail 2016-12-27 2016-12-27 601994 local, remote 0.9.44.2 0.9.44.2 0.9.38.6

A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Firejail. Please review upstream’s release notes below for details.

A remote attacker could possibly bypass sandbox protection, cause a Denial of Service condition, or change a system’s DNS server.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Firejail users should switch to the newly added LTS version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/firejail-lts-0.9.38.6"

Users who want to stay on the current branch should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/firejail-0.9.44.2" Firejail Release Notes b-man whissi