Fedora 27 : flatpak (2018-bd651734da)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106644

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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 forwards compatibility

- Removed incorrect error message in update --appdata when ther was no updates

- Fix handling of abort in the duplicate remote prompt

- Fix division by zero in progress calculation

- Fix flatpak remote-info --show-metadata

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-2018-bd651734da

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106644

File Name: fedora_2018-bd651734da.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/7/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:flatpak, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2018

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