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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 202505-10
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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
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The Tracker miners are a collection of data extractors for the GNOME
Tracker.

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

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

Impact
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Please review the referenced CVE identifier for details.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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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
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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