This bug was fixed in the package man-db - 2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1
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man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) bionic; urgency=medium
* Backport seccomp sandbox improvements from 2.8.4 (LP: #1785414):
- Allow sched_getaffinity, used by xz in some cases.
- Allow some shared memory operations, req
Thanks. Sounds like I still missed something but it's at least no worse
than before, so I think that's good enough for verification-done.
** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-bionic
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Thanks, Colin, for providing the fixes+backport and Brian, for including
them into the repository.
I hope the following serves at least as a regression test.
[Test Cases]
1) ESET NOD32 Antivirus4 4.0.90.0 with /etc/ld.so.preload (which serves to
files scanning on access)
1a) man-db 2.8.3-2 and
I couldn't reproduce the problem with XZ_DEFAULTS=--threads=0 but
according to [1], it requires xz-utils >= 5.2.3 and 18.04 has 5.2.2-1.3.
I found no regression but I have NOT tested the ESET/VPN cases.
1: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-
db.git/commit/?id=8fa6fb5eca612600b3a3d8da811f8345afe
Hello Colin, or anyone else affected,
Accepted man-db into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-
db/2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See
https://w
** Summary changed:
- Backport seccomp sandbox fixes to 16.04
+ Backport seccomp sandbox fixes to 18.04
** Description changed:
I applied several fixes to the seccomp sandbox in man-db 2.8.4, and I
- think they would all be worth backporting to 16.04. They're all corner
+ think they would all
