CVE-2021-44730

NameCVE-2021-44730
Descriptionsnapd 2.54.2 did not properly validate the location of the snap-confine binary. A local attacker who can hardlink this binary to another location to cause snap-confine to execute other arbitrary binaries and hence gain privilege escalation. Fixed in snapd versions 2.54.3+18.04, 2.54.3+20.04 and 2.54.3+21.10.1
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-5080-1, ELA-745-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
snapd (PTS)stretch (security)2.21-2+deb9u1vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch2.21-2+deb9u3fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.37.4-1+deb10u3fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2.49-1+deb11u2fixed
bookworm2.57.6-1fixed
trixie2.65.3-1fixed
sid2.66.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
snapdsourcestretch2.21-2+deb9u2ELA-745-1
snapdsourcebuster2.37.4-1+deb10u1DSA-5080-1
snapdsourcebullseye2.49-1+deb11u1DSA-5080-1
snapdsource(unstable)2.54.3-1

Notes

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/17/2

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