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USN-4051-1: Apport vulnerability

9 July 2019

Apport could be made to expose sensitive information in crash reports.

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Releases

Packages

  • apport - automatically generate crash reports for debugging

Details

Kevin Backhouse discovered a race-condition when reading the user's local
Apport configuration. This could be used by a local attacker to cause
Apport to include arbitrary files in a resulting crash report.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-4051-2: apport, dh-apport, python-apport, python3-apport, apport-noui, python3-problem-report, python-problem-report, apport-kde, apport-valgrind, apport-retrace, apport-gtk