USN-5122-1: Apport vulnerability
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. This update will
cause Apport to generate all core files in the /var/lib/apport/coredump
directory.
Source: USN-5122-1: Apport vulnerability
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