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A flatpak security update has been released for Fedora 32.



SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: flatpak-1.8.5-1.fc32


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-f807eb480a
2021-01-19 01:50:48.910487
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Name : flatpak
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 1.8.5
Release : 1.fc32
URL :   http://flatpak.org/
Summary : Application deployment framework for desktop apps
Description :
flatpak is a system for building, distributing and running sandboxed desktop
applications on Linux. See   https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps for
more information.

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Update Information:

This is a security update that fixes a sandbox escape where a malicious
application can execute code outside the sandbox by controlling the environment
of the "flatpak run" command when spawning a sub-sandbox. See the advisory for
details:   https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-4ppf-
fxf6-vxg2
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 14 2021 Kalev Lember - 1.8.5-1
- Update to 1.8.5
* Wed Nov 18 2020 David King - 1.8.3-2
- Drop obsolete Requires on system-release
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-f807eb480a' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys