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Fedora 25: Critical Advisory for Flatpak Sandbox Escape Issue

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Calendar Grey January 29, 2017
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flatpak 0.8.2 release, fixing a security issue that could lead to sandbox escaping

Summary

flatpak is a system for building, distributing and running sandboxed desktop

applications on Linux. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps for

more information.

Update Information:

flatpak 0.8.2 release, fixing a security issue that could lead to sandbox escaping. For details, see https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.8.2

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update critical Fedora sandbox flatpak

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-05e456028b 2017-01-28 20:31:05.723081
Name : flatpak Product : Fedora 25 Version : 0.8.2 Release : 1.fc25 URL : https://flatpak.org/ Summary : Application deployment framework for desktop apps Description : flatpak is a system for building, distributing and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps for more information.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade flatpak' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: flatpak
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.8.2
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://flatpak.org/
Summary: Application deployment framework for desktop apps

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security advisory security issue update critical Fedora sandbox flatpak

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