Announce: Flatpak 1.14.4 (security fix release)
Simon McVittie
smcv at collabora.com
Thu Mar 16 18:58:35 UTC 2023
Available here: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.14.4
This is a maintenance release fixing security issues.
$ sha256sum -b flatpak-1.14.4.tar.xz
8a34dbd0b67c434e7598b98ec690953d046f0db26e480aeafb46d72aec716799 *flatpak-1.14.4.tar.xz
Security fixes:
* Escape special characters when displaying permissions and metadata,
preventing malicious apps from manipulating the appearance of the
permissions list using crafted metadata (CVE-2023-28101).
* If a Flatpak app is run on a Linux virtual console (tty1, tty2, etc.),
don't allow copy/paste via the TIOCLINUX ioctl (CVE-2023-28100). Note
that this is specific to virtual consoles: Flatpak is not vulnerable
to this if run from a graphical terminal emulator such as xterm,
gnome-terminal or Konsole.
Other bug fixes:
* Translation update: pl
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