Issued:

2024-09-05

Updated:

2024-09-05

RHSA-2024:6418 - Important: bubblewrap and flatpak security update

Synopsis

Important: bubblewrap and flatpak security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for bubblewrap and flatpak is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service.

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.

Description

Bubblewrap (/usr/bin/bwrap) is a core execution engine for unprivileged containers that works as a setuid binary on kernels without user namespaces.

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• flatpak-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-debugsource-1.8.5-7.el8_4.i686.rpm
• flatpak-libs-1.8.5-7.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• bubblewrap-0.4.0-2.el8_4.src.rpm
• flatpak-debugsource-1.8.5-7.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.i686.rpm
• bubblewrap-0.4.0-2.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• flatpak-1.8.5-7.el8_4.src.rpm
• flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• bubblewrap-debuginfo-0.4.0-2.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.i686.rpm
• bubblewrap-debuginfo-0.4.0-2.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• bubblewrap-debugsource-0.4.0-2.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-session-helper-1.8.5-7.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-selinux-1.8.5-7.el8_4.noarch.rpm
• flatpak-debugsource-1.8.5-7.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-session-helper-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• bubblewrap-0.4.0-2.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-libs-1.8.5-7.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.i686.rpm
• flatpak-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.i686.rpm
• flatpak-libs-1.8.5-7.el8_4.i686.rpm
• flatpak-session-helper-1.8.5-7.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• flatpak-tests-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• flatpak-1.8.5-7.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
• flatpak-libs-debuginfo-1.8.5-7.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• bubblewrap-debugsource-0.4.0-2.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
• flatpak-1.8.5-7.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

• CVE-2024-42472

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

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