[IT-SecNots] [SECURITY] [DSA 4830-1] flatpak security update

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm AT debian.org>]

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4830-1                   security AT debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
January 14, 2021                      https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : flatpak
CVE ID         : not yet available

Simon McVittie discovered a bug in the flatpak-portal service that can
allow sandboxed applications to execute arbitrary code on the host system
(a sandbox escape).

The Flatpak portal D-Bus service (flatpak-portal, also known by its
D-Bus service name org.freedesktop.portal.Flatpak) allows apps in a
Flatpak sandbox to launch their own subprocesses in a new sandbox
instance, either with the same security settings as the caller or
with more restrictive security settings. For example, this is used in
Flatpak-packaged web browsers such as Chromium to launch subprocesses
that will process untrusted web content, and give those subprocesses a
more restrictive sandbox than the browser itself.

In vulnerable versions, the Flatpak portal service passes caller-specified
environment variables to non-sandboxed processes on the host system,
and in particular to the flatpak run command that is used to launch the
new sandbox instance. A malicious or compromised Flatpak app could set
environment variables that are trusted by the flatpak run command, and
use them to execute arbitrary code that is not in a sandbox.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.5-0+deb10u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your flatpak packages.

For the detailed security status of flatpak please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/flatpak

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce AT lists.debian.org
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