Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2845-1
17th December, 2015
sosreport vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 15.10
- Ubuntu 15.04
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
sosreport could be made to expose sensitive information or overwrite files
as the administrator.
Software description
- 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 version:
- Ubuntu 15.10:
-
sosreport
3.2-2ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 15.04:
-
sosreport
3.2-2ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
sosreport
3.1-1ubuntu2.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Source: ubuntu-usn
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