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Fedora 33 : flatpak (2021-f970ea9d79)

high Nessus Plugin ID 145115

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 33 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-f970ea9d79 advisory.

 - This updates flatpak from 1.8 to new 1.10 stable series. The major new feature in this series compared to 1.8 is the support for the new repo format which should make updates faster and download less data. For details what's new in 1.10, see https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.10.0 This also includes a security update that fixes a sandbox escape where a malicious application can execute code outside the sandbox by controlling the environment of the flatpak run command when spawning a sub-sandbox. See the advisory for details: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-4ppf-fxf6-vxg2 (FEDORA-2021-f970ea9d79)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected flatpak package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-f970ea9d79

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 145115

File Name: fedora_2021-f970ea9d79.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2021

Updated: 4/12/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:33, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:flatpak

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2021

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