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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3895-1 flatpak -- security update

Date Reported:

22 Jun 2017

Affected Packages:

flatpak

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9780.

More information:

It was discovered that Flatpak, an application deployment framework for desktop apps insufficiently restricted file permissinons in third-party repositories, which could result in privilege escalation.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.5-2+deb9u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your flatpak packages.