Announce: Flatpak 0.8.1 (CVE-2017-5226)

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Wed Jan 18 16:04:34 UTC 2017


Available here:

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.8.1

$ sha256sum flatpak-0.8.1.tar.xz 
9de103312b86f1033fa12768dc836525d6d9385defc80306e68691df66e7edaf  flatpak-0.8.1.tar.xz

Major changes in 0.8.1
======================

This is a bugfix and security update (CVE-2017-5226).

Flatpak now uses seccomp to disallow the TIOCSTI ioctl in the sandbox,
which works around the possibility to inject text on the controlling
tty (CVE-2017-5226).

This was previously fixed in bubblewrap in 0.1.6, but that change has
now been reverted as it introduced other problems for flatpak.

 * Update bundled bubblewrap to 0.1.7
 * Fix writing new file with O_EXCL in the document portal.
 * Allow appstream data that doesn't have .desktop in the component id,
   such as data for runtimes.
 * Drop json-glib dependency from 1.2 to 1.0
 * Builder: Fail if unable to read included file
 * OCI: Ensure exported layers are readable by everyone
 * Fix extra-data download in gnome-software
 * Fix update-mime-database trigger when installing via
   the system helper.
 * Updating an app by installing a newer bundle now works
   again.
 * Make /var/tmp not be on a tmpfs (it is now in
   ~/.var/app/$appid/cache/tmp).
 * Documentation / translation updates



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