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RedHat: RHSA-2022-1792-01 Moderate: Flatpak Permissions Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A substantial security update for Flatpak on Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses permission-related bugs and incorporates various patches.
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: Permissions granted to applications can be hidden from the user at install time (CVE-2021-43860)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux permissions issue flatpak

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43860 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: flatpak-1.8.7-1.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: flatpak-1.8.7-1.el8.aarch64.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.aarch64.rpm flatpak-debugsource-1.8.7-1.el8.aarch64.rpm flatpak-libs-1.8.7-1.el8.aarch64.rpm flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.aarch64.rpm flatpak-session-helper-1.8.7-1.el8.aarch64.rpm flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.aarch64.rpm flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: flatpak-selinux-1.8.7-1.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: flatpak-1.8.7-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-debugsource-1.8.7-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-libs-1.8.7-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-session-helper-1.8.7-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: flatpak-1.8.7-1.el8.s390x.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.s390x.rpm flatpak-debugsource-1.8.7-1.el8.s390x.rpm flatpak-libs-1.8.7-1.el8.s390x.rpm flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.s390x.rpm flatpak-session-helper-1.8.7-1.el8.s390x.rpm flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.s390x.rpm flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: flatpak-1.8.7-1.el8.x86_64.rpm flatpak-debuginfo-1.8.7-1.el8.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1792-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1792
Issue date: 2022-05-10

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 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux permissions issue flatpak

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

Bugs Fixed

1980438 - [BZ] Disable gvfs plugins when listing flatpak installations

2010533 - Update to 1.8.6

2041590 - CVE-2021-43860 flatpak: Permissions granted to applications can be hidden from the user at install time

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