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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-4951-1: Critical Flatpak Access Risk Advisory

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2021
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Security Alert USN-5002-2 addresses a Snap vulnerability permitting unauthorized data exposure on Linux distributions.
A Flatpak application could access files that it would not normally be permitted to access.

Summary

A Flatpak application could access files that it would not normally

be permitted to access.

Software Description:

- flatpak: Application deployment framework for desktop apps

Details:

Anton Lydike discovered that Flatpak did not properly handle special tokens

in desktop files. An attacker could use this to specially craft a Flatpak

application that could escape sandbox confinement.

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Topics Covered

security advisory access control application update update instructions file access ubuntu risk mitigation file permission access risk application framework flatpak

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 20.10:
  flatpak                         1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2
  libflatpak0                     1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  flatpak                         1.6.5-0ubuntu0.3
  libflatpak0                     1.6.5-0ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  flatpak                         1.0.9-0ubuntu0.3
  libflatpak0                     1.0.9-0ubuntu0.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4951-1

CVE-2021-21381

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May 12, 2021

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Topics Covered

security advisory access control application update update instructions file access ubuntu risk mitigation file permission access risk application framework flatpak

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flatpak/1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flatpak/1.6.5-0ubuntu0.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flatpak/1.0.9-0ubuntu0.3

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