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USN-3480-2: Apport regressions Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3480-2 20th November, 2017 apport regressions A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.10 Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary USN-3480-1 introduced regressions in Apport. Software description apport – automatically generate crash reports for debugging Details USN-3480-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. The fix for CVE-2017-14177introduced a regression in the ability to handle crashes for users thatconfigured their systems to use the Upstart init system in Ubuntu 16.04LTS and Ubuntu 17.04. The fix for CVE-2017-14180 temporarily disabledcrash forwarding to containers. This update addresses the problems. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled core dumps for setuid binaries. A local attacker could use this issue to perform a denial of service via resource exhaustion or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2017-14177) Sander Bos discovered [ more… ]