RHSA-2023:6518 — Security Advisory

An update for flatpak is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: flatpak (1.12.8). (BZ#2221792)

Security Fix(es):

• flatpak: TIOCLINUX can send commands outside sandbox if running on a virtual console (CVE-2023-28100)

• flatpak: Metadata with ANSI control codes can cause misleading terminal output (CVE-2023-28101)

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

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.