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Debian DSA-4390-1 : flatpak - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 122163

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that Flatpak, an application deployment framework for desktop apps, insufficiently restricted the execution of 'apply_extra'scripts which could potentially result in privilege escalation.

Solution

Upgrade the flatpak packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.9-0+deb9u2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=922059

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/flatpak

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/flatpak

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4390

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 122163

File Name: debian_DSA-4390.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/14/2019

Updated: 2/14/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:flatpak

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2019

Reference Information

DSA: 4390