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Severity: Normal
Title: Tracker miners: Sandbox weakness
Date: May 14, 2025
Bugs: #916378
ID: 202505-10

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in Tracker miners, which can lead to
a sandbox escape and execution of arbitrary code.

Background
==========

The Tracker miners are a collection of data extractors for the GNOME
Tracker.

Affected packages
=================

Package Vulnerable Unaffected
----------------------- ------------ ------------
app-misc/tracker-miners < 3.5.3 >= 3.5.3

Description
===========

A vulnerability has been discovered in Tracker minders. Please review
the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Impact
======

Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.

Workaround
==========

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

All Tracker miners users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/tracker-miners-3.5.3"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2023-5557
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5557

Availability
============

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202505-10

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2025 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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