USN-4051-1: Apport vulnerability
9 July 2019
Apport could be made to expose sensitive information in crash reports.
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.
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