RHSA-2018:2766 — Security Advisory

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.