Tip: quick workaround for Firejail vulnerability
Apr 29, 2021 20:41:52 GMT
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Post by kiezel on Apr 29, 2021 20:41:52 GMT
Many people use Firejail for sandboxing their web browsers. There's a potentially dangerous vulnerability in Firejail versions below 0.9.64.2:
unparalleled.eu/publications/2021/advisory-unpar-2021-0.txt
And:
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/08/5
Summary: support for OverlayFS in Firejail is vulnerable. A quick workaround is to simply disable that support, for example by means of this single command:
Done.
unparalleled.eu/publications/2021/advisory-unpar-2021-0.txt
And:
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/02/08/5
Summary: support for OverlayFS in Firejail is vulnerable. A quick workaround is to simply disable that support, for example by means of this single command:
sudo sed -i 's/# overlayfs yes/overlayfs no/' /etc/firejail/firejail.configDone.
