CVE-2017-5206 (GCVE-0-2017-5206)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-23 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:55
VLAI?
Summary
Firejail before 0.9.44.4, when running on a Linux kernel before 4.8, allows context-dependent attackers to bypass a seccomp-based sandbox protection mechanism via the --allow-debuggers argument.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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Date Public ?
2017-01-06 00:00
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