USN-4051-2: Apport vulnerability

USN-4051-2: Apport vulnerability

apport vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Summary

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

Software Description

• apport – automatically generate crash reports for debugging

Details

USN-4051-1 fixed a vulnerability in apport. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory 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 14.04 ESM

python-apport – 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm1

python3-apport – 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm1

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

• USN-4051-1
• CVE-2019-7307

Source: USN-4051-2: Apport vulnerability