USN-3157-1: Apport vulnerabilities<\/p>\n
14th December, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its Apport could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that the crash file parser in Apport Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that Apport did not properly sanitize the Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that Apport would offer to restart an The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following To update your system, please follow these instructions: In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n CVE-2016-9949<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2016-9950<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2016-9951<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-3157-1: Apport vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-3157-1: Apport vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3157-1 14th December, 2016 apport vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Apport could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. Software description apport – automatically generate crash reports for debugging Details Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that the crash file parser in Apportimproperly treated the CrashDB field as python code. An attacker coulduse this to convince a user to open a maliciously crafted crash fileand execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user. This issueonly affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-9949) Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that Apport did not properly sanitize thePackage and SourcePackage fields in crash files before processing packagespecific hooks. An attacker could [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-12759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12760,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions\/12760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}apport vulnerabilities<\/h3>\n
\n derivatives:<\/p>\n\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
\nspecially crafted file.\n<\/p>\nSoftware description<\/h3>\n
\n
\n – automatically generate crash reports for debugging<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
improperly treated the CrashDB field as python code. An attacker could
use this to convince a user to open a maliciously crafted crash file
and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-9949<\/a>)<\/p>\n
Package and SourcePackage fields in crash files before processing package
specific hooks. An attacker could use this to convince a user to open a
maliciously crafted crash file and execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of that user. (CVE-2016-9950<\/a>)<\/p>\n
application based on the contents of the RespawnCommand or ProcCmdline
fields in a crash file. An attacker could use this to convince a user to
open a maliciously crafted crash file and execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of that user. (CVE-2016-9951<\/a>)<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
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\n 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2<\/a>
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\n 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2<\/a>
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\n 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2<\/a>
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\n 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2<\/a>
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\n 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2<\/a>
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\n 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4<\/a>
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\n 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4<\/a>
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\n 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4<\/a>
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\n 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4<\/a>
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\n 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4<\/a>
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\n 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23<\/a>
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\n 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23<\/a>
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\n 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23<\/a>
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\n 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23<\/a>
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\n 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.23<\/a>
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\n 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.15<\/a>
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\n 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.15<\/a>
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\n 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.15<\/a>
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\n 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.15<\/a>
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\nhttps:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.\n<\/p>\nReferences<\/h3>\n