VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9016

high
Published 2017-01-19 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Firejail 0.9.38.4 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands outside of the sandbox via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.9.44-1
sid Fixed 0.9.44-1
forky Fixed 0.9.44-1
bullseye Fixed 0.9.44-1
bookworm Fixed 0.9.44-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
firejail_projectfirejail0.9.38.4

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.