USN-4051-1: Apport vulnerability

USN-4051-1: Apport vulnerability

apport vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Apport could be made to expose sensitive information in crash reports.

Software Description

• 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

python-apport – 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1

python3-apport – 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1

Ubuntu 18.10

python-apport – 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.4

python3-apport – 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.4

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

python-apport – 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7

python3-apport – 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

python-apport – 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19

python3-apport – 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19

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

• CVE-2019-7307

Source: USN-4051-1: Apport vulnerability