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Red Hat 8.2 RHSA-2021-1073 Important: Flatpak File Access Risk

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An important flatpak security patch for Red Hat resolving file permission vulnerabilities is now released. Ensure safety!
An update for flatpak is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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: "file forwarding" feature can be used to gain unprivileged access to files (CVE-2021-21381)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat red hat important system update file access security risk linux update flatpak

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21381 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm flatpak-debugsource-1.6.2-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm flatpak-libs-1.6.2-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm flatpak-session-helper-1.6.2-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
noarch: flatpak-selinux-1.6.2-5.el8_2.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-debugsource-1.6.2-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-libs-1.6.2-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-session-helper-1.6.2-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: flatpak-1.6.2-5.el8_2.s390x.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.s390x.rpm flatpak-debugsource-1.6.2-5.el8_2.s390x.rpm flatpak-libs-1.6.2-5.el8_2.s390x.rpm flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.s390x.rpm flatpak-session-helper-1.6.2-5.el8_2.s390x.rpm flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.s390x.rpm flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.6.2-5.el8_2.s390x.rpm
x86_64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1073-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1073
Issue date: 2021-04-06

Topic

An update for flatpak is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat red hat important system update file access security risk linux update flatpak

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1936985 - CVE-2021-21381 flatpak: "file forwarding" feature can be used to gain unprivileged access to files

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