Synopsis

Important: flatpak security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for flatpak is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.

Security Fix(es):

• flatpak: sandbox escape via spawn portal (CVE-2021-21261)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1917430 - CVE-2021-21261 flatpak: sandbox escape via spawn portal

CVEs

• CVE-2021-21261

References