CVE-2017-5206

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5206
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5206.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5206
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-03-23T16:59:00.417Z
Modified
2025-11-14T03:35:21.481411Z
Severity
  • 9.0 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/netblue30/firejail

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
6b8dba29d73257311564ee7f27b9b14758cc693e

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "digest": {
            "length": 325.0,
            "function_hash": "65792200794165758615890651797367375440"
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "src/firejail/main.c",
            "function": "detect_allow_debuggers"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "id": "CVE-2017-5206-66366121",
        "source": "https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/6b8dba29d73257311564ee7f27b9b14758cc693e",
        "deprecated": false
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "54599638741106254987302327452253934160",
                "33607893010149723093548560133734141643",
                "240378706286755339177978268301134147669",
                "338742974002775008775820326758804651198",
                "48639820909732886781516077881910579693",
                "38338447638600750539827456274630738234",
                "151420242146240698399504753220659614634",
                "190608544414440206834505349026983060588"
            ]
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "src/firejail/main.c"
        },
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "id": "CVE-2017-5206-6d0d65a2",
        "source": "https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/6b8dba29d73257311564ee7f27b9b14758cc693e",
        "deprecated": false
    }
]