USN-2845-1: SoS vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• sosreport - Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system

Details

Dolev Farhi discovered an information disclosure issue in SoS. If the
/etc/fstab file contained passwords, the passwords were included in the
SoS report. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3925)

Mateusz Guzik discovered that SoS incorrectly handled temporary files. A
local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files
or gain access to temporary file contents containing sensitive system
information. (CVE-2015-7529)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10

• sosreport - 3.2-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 15.04

• sosreport - 3.2-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• sosreport - 3.1-1ubuntu2.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-3925
• CVE-2015-7529