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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-6560: Security patch for flatpak (ALAS-2018-1096)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-6560: Security patch for flatpak (ALAS-2018-1096)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/02/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In dbus-proxy/flatpak-proxy.c in Flatpak before 0.8.9, and 0.9.x and 0.10.x before 0.10.3, crafted D-Bus messages to the host can be used to break out of the sandbox, because whitespace handling in the proxy is not identical to whitespace handling in the daemon.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-flatpak
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-flatpak-builder
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-flatpak-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-flatpak-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-flatpak-libs

References

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