Flatpak-cve-checker Alternatives

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flatpak-cve-checker reviews and mentions

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  • Update from the world of Fedora Workstation
    1 project | /r/linux | 15 Dec 2022
    Parsing the manifest for vulns is doable. Here I wrote one: https://github.com/TingPing/flatpak-cve-checker
  • Flaptak (and Snap) is not the future
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2021
    If Debian (or whatever org/group/project/initiative that) provides the images has a security policy, they can extend that to the images too.

    Users don't run CVE checkers [0], at best they reluctantly click on the update button. Of course the authoritarian evergreen auto-update thing is what actually works in practice.

    For example as much as snap's UX sucks it does auto update by default.

    [0] Though they could, as files in container images are trivially accessible, after all it's their purpose. Plus there are metadata based approaches: https://github.com/TingPing/flatpak-cve-checker (plus the Flatpak project already spends some energy on ensuring that the base image is chechekd against CVEs https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/jobs/18... ) of course duplicating this effort, and building a parallel world besides packages is not ideal, but

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