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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2021:0304-01 Important Flatpak Escape

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Calendar Grey February 1, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Essential Fedora flatpak security patch addresses a sandbox breach issue to enhance system protection in corporate environments.
An update for flatpak is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.
Security Fix(es):
* flatpak: sandbox escape via spawn portal (CVE-2021-21261)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21261 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_3.src.rpm
aarch64: flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm flatpak-debugsource-1.6.2-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm flatpak-libs-1.6.2-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm flatpak-session-helper-1.6.2-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
noarch: flatpak-selinux-1.6.2-5.el8_3.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-debugsource-1.6.2-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-libs-1.6.2-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-session-helper-1.6.2-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm flatpak-debugsource-1.6.2-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm flatpak-libs-1.6.2-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm flatpak-session-helper-1.6.2-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0304-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2021-02-01

Topic

An update for flatpak is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1917430 - CVE-2021-21261 flatpak: sandbox escape via spawn portal

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