Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2538
Advisory Release Date: 2024-05-09 19:16 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-05-15 19:24 Pacific
Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux. in versions before 1.10.9, 1.12.9, 1.14.6, and 1.15.8, a malicious or compromised Flatpak app could execute arbitrary code outside its sandbox. Normally, the `--command` argument of `flatpak run` expects to be given a command to run in the specified Flatpak app, optionally along with some arguments. However it is possible to instead pass `bwrap` arguments to `--command=`, such as `--bind`. It's possible to pass an arbitrary `commandline` to the portal interface `org.freedesktop.portal.Background.RequestBackground` from within a Flatpak app. When this is converted into a `--command` and arguments, it achieves the same effect of passing arguments directly to `bwrap`, and thus can be used for a sandbox escape. The solution is to pass the `--` argument to `bwrap`, which makes it stop processing options. This has been supported since bubblewrap 0.3.0. All supported versions of Flatpak require at least that version of bubblewrap. xdg-desktop-portal version 1.18.4 will mitigate this vulnerability by only allowing Flatpak apps to create .desktop files for commands that do not start with --. The vulnerability is patched in 1.15.8, 1.10.9, 1.12.9, and 1.14.6. (CVE-2024-32462)
Affected Packages:
flatpak
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update flatpak to update your system.
aarch64:
flatpak-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
flatpak-builder-1.0.0-10.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
flatpak-devel-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
flatpak-libs-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
flatpak-debuginfo-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.aarch64
i686:
flatpak-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.i686
flatpak-builder-1.0.0-10.amzn2.0.5.i686
flatpak-devel-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.i686
flatpak-libs-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.i686
flatpak-debuginfo-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.i686
src:
flatpak-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.src
x86_64:
flatpak-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
flatpak-builder-1.0.0-10.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
flatpak-devel-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
flatpak-libs-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.x86_64
flatpak-debuginfo-1.0.9-10.amzn2.0.5.x86_64