RHSA-2024:6417 — Security Advisory

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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: Access to files outside sandbox for apps using persistent= (--persist) (CVE-2024-42472)

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.