It’s been a month since Flatpak 0.8 major release hit the streets for GNU/Linux distribution that want to offer their users fast and easy access to various third-party apps that aren’t available in the official repositories of the respective OS.
Alex Larsson is today announcing the availability of Flatpak 0.8.1, the first point release of the new stable series. This appears to be a bugfix and security update, marked as CVE-2017-5226, bundled with bubblewrap 0.1.7 to addresses a security vulnerability that would allow an attacker to inject text on the controlling TTY.
“Flatpak now uses seccomp to disallow the TIOCSTI ioctl in the sandbox, which works around the possibility to inject text on the controlling TTY (CVE-2017-5226),” explained Alex Larsson. “This was previously fixed in bubblewrap in 0.1.6, but that change has now been… (read more)
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