USN-5122-2: Apport vulnerability

USN-5122-2: Apport vulnerability

USN-5122-1 fixed a vulnerability in Apport. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Apport could be tricked into writing core files as
root into arbitrary directories in certain scenarios. A local attacker
could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. On Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
This update will cause Apport to generate all core files in the /var/lib/apport/coredump
directory. On Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, core file generation has been disabled by default.
Source: USN-5122-2: Apport vulnerability

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