OESA-2021-1404 flatpak security update

flatpak is a system for building, distributing and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. Security Fixes: In versions prior to 1.10.4 and 1.12.0, Flatpak apps with direct access to AFUNIX sockets such as those used by Wayland, Pipewire or pipewire-pulse can trick portals and other host-...

Privilege Escalation

Flatpak is vulnerable to privilege escalation. This is possible due to the use of a proxy process xdg-dbus-proxy, whose VFS cannot be manipulated by the Flatpak app, when interacting with these buses...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-41133

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. In versions prior to 1.10.4 and 1.12.0, Flatpak apps with direct access to AFUNIX sockets such as those used by Wayland, Pipewire or pipewire-pulse can trick portals and other host-OS services int...

Fedora 30 : webkit2gtk3 (2019-4213e37211)

Improve performance of querying system fallback fonts. - Dont use prgname in dbus-proxy socket path. - Fix thread-safety issues in image decoders. - Fix the build with WebDriver disabled. - Disable accelerated compositing when we fail to initialize the EGL dispaly under Wayland. - Fill the...

openSUSE Security Update : flatpak (openSUSE-2018-139)

This update for flatpak to version 0.8.9 fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2018-6560: sandbox escape in the flatpak dbus proxy boo1078923 - CVE-2017-9780: Malicious apps could have included inappropriate permissions boo1078989 - old-style eavesdroppi...

Fedora 27 : flatpak (2018-bd651734da)

This is a security fix release that fixes a sandbox escape in the flatpak dbus proxy. This issue was found by Gabriel Campana of The Google Security Team. Major changes in 0.10.3 - Fix dbus proxy vulnerability in authentication phase - Make permission handling ignore unknown permissions for...

Fedora 26 : flatpak (2018-b5ecac9405)

This is a security fix release that fixes a sandbox escape in the flatpak dbus proxy. This issue was found by Gabriel Campana of The Google Security Team. Major changes in 0.10.3 - Fix dbus proxy vulnerability in authentication phase - Make permission handling ignore unknown permissions for...

CVE-2018-6560

In dbus-proxy/flatpak-proxy.c in Flatpak before 0.8.9, and 0.9.x and 0.10.x before 0.10.3, crafted D-Bus messages to the host can be used to break out of the sandbox, because whitespace handling in the proxy is not identical to whitespace handling in the daemon...

CVE-2018-6560: Interpretation Conflict

In dbus-proxy/flatpak-proxy.c in Flatpak before 0.8.9, and 0.9.x and 0.10.x before 0.10.3, crafted D-Bus messages to the host can be used to break out of the sandbox, because whitespace handling in the proxy is not identical to whitespace handling in the daemon...