Bug 28919

Summary:	man-db 2.9.4 fixes seccomp sandbox for 64-bit
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ouaurelien, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	8	Keywords:	advisory, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA8-64-OK
Source RPM:	man-db-2.9.3-1.mga8.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2021-05-14 23:13:17 CEST

Update coming once the build system catches up.

Advisory:
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The man-db package has been updated to version 2.9.4 to fix a seccomp sandbox
issue on 64-bit Linux.

References:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/tree/NEWS?id=33fe5d77bd9908e3daf9fc868540ea24bca0b318

Comment 1 David Walser 2021-05-15 02:37:01 CEST

Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
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man-db-2.9.4-1.mga8
man-db-cron-2.9.4-1.mga8

from man-db-2.9.4-1.mga8.src.rpm

Assignee: bugsquad => qa-bugs

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-05-20 18:21:56 CEST

$ inxi -Sxx
System:    Host: mageia.local Kernel: 5.10.37-desktop-2.mga8 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.3.0 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Mageia 8 mga8

Updating the package:

[RPM][389415]: Transaction ID 60a68b37 started
mai 20 18:15:52 mageia.local [RPM][389415]: erase man-db-2.9.3-1.mga8.x86_64: success
mai 20 18:15:52 mageia.local [RPM][389415]: install man-db-2.9.4-1.mga8.x86_64: success
mai 20 18:15:53 mageia.local systemd[1]: Reloading.
mai 20 18:15:53 mageia.local systemd[1]: Started /usr/bin/systemctl start man-db-cache-update.
mai 20 18:15:53 mageia.local systemd[1]: Starting man-db-cache-update.service...
mai 20 18:15:53 mageia.local systemd[1]: Started /usr/bin/systemctl start man-db-cache-update.
mai 20 18:15:53 mageia.local [RPM][389415]: install man-db-2.9.4-1.mga8.x86_64: success
mai 20 18:15:53 mageia.local [RPM][389415]: Transaction ID 60a68b37 finished: 0

Note that man-db is run correctly after update, as nearly every update is done to packages.
Updated OK.

MGA8-64-OK for me.

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OK

Comment 3 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-05-22 16:09:57 CEST

Validating.

Keywords: (none) => advisory, validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Comment 4 Mageia Robot 2021-05-23 03:32:38 CEST

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2021-0120.html

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED