USN-6018-1: Apport vulnerability

13 April 2023

Apport could be used to escalate privilege on specially configured systems.

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Releases

Packages

  • apport - automatically generate crash reports for debugging

Details

Chen Lu, Lei Wang, and YiQi Sun discovered a privilege escalation
vulnerability in apport-cli when viewing crash reports and unprivileged
users are allowed to run sudo less. A local attacker on a specially
configured system could use this to escalate their privilege.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

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