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Fedora 24 : flatpak (2017-484fae685d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96888

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

flatpak 0.8.2 release, fixing a security issue that could lead to sandbox escaping. For details, see https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.8.2

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected flatpak package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-484fae685d

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.8.2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96888

File Name: fedora_2017-484fae685d.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/31/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:flatpak, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2017

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