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Fedora 34: 2022-27bd238ggb Major: Flatpak Security Flaw Detected

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Flatpak 1.10.2 security patch rolled out for Fedora 33, addressing severe file exploitation vulnerability and memory leak issues.
flatpak 1.10.2 release

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.

flatpak 1.10.2 release. This is a security update which fixes a potential

attack where a flatpak application could use custom formated .desktop files to

gain access to files on the host system. Other changes: * Fix memory leaks *

Some test fixes * Documentation updates * G_BEGIN/END_DECLS added to library

headders for c++ use * Fix for X11 cookies on OpenSUSE * Spawn portal better

handles non-utf8 filenames

* Wed Mar 10 2021 Kalev Lember - 1.10.2-1

- Update to 1.10.2

[ 1 ] Bug #1936985 - CVE-2021-21381 flatpak: the "file forwarding" feature can be used to gain unprivileged access to files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1936985

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-26ad138ffa' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 1.10.2
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: Application deployment framework for desktop apps

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