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CentOS 7 : flatpak (CESA-2018:2766)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117831

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Synopsis

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

Description

An update for flatpak is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.

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

Security Fix(es) :

* flatpak: sandbox escape in D-Bus filtering by a crafted authentication handshake (CVE-2018-6560)

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

Solution

Update the affected flatpak packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab912f92

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117831

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-2766.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2018

Updated: 2/24/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6560

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:flatpak-libs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:flatpak-builder, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:flatpak, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:flatpak-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6560

RHSA: 2018:2766