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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-9893: libseccomp An incorrect generation of syscall filters

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-9893: libseccomp An incorrect generation of syscall filters

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/21/2019
Created
02/12/2020
Added
02/11/2020
Modified
07/20/2020

Description

libseccomp before 2.4.0 did not correctly generate 64-bit syscall argument comparisons using the arithmetic operators (LT, GT, LE, GE), which might able to lead to bypassing seccomp filters and potential privilege escalations.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-alpine-base

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