{"id":37254,"date":"2020-06-15T23:51:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-4315-2-apport-vulnerabilities\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:34:07","slug":"usn-4315-2-apport-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-4315-2-apport-vulnerabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"USN-4315-2: Apport vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USN-4315-2: Apport vulnerabilities<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"apport-vulnerabilities\">apport vulnerabilities<\/h2>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu 14.04 ESM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"summary\">Summary<\/h3>\n<p>Several security issues were fixed in Apport.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"software-description\">Software Description<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>apport &#8211; automatically generate crash reports for debugging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"details\">Details<\/h3>\n<p>USN-4315-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apport. This update provides<br \/>\nthe corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.<\/p>\n<p>Original advisory details:<\/p>\n<p>Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with<br \/>\n insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escalate their<br \/>\n privileges via a symlink attack. (CVE-2020-8831)<\/p>\n<p>Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered a race condition in Apport when setting<br \/>\n crash report permissions. This could allow a local attacker to read<br \/>\n arbitrary files via a symlink attack.  (CVE-2020-8833)<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"update-instructions\">Update instructions<\/h2>\n<p>The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Ubuntu 14.04 ESM<\/dt>\n<dd>apport &#8211; 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm4<\/dd>\n<dd>python-apport &#8211; 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm4<\/dd>\n<dd>python3-apport &#8211; 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm4<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>To update your system, please follow these instructions: <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades\">https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"references\">References<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/usn.ubuntu.com\/usn\/usn-4315-1\">USN-4315-1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.canonical.com\/~ubuntu-security\/cve\/CVE-2020-8831\">CVE-2020-8831<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.canonical.com\/~ubuntu-security\/cve\/CVE-2020-8833\">CVE-2020-8833<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/usn.ubuntu.com\/4315-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USN-4315-2: Apport vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>USN-4315-2: Apport vulnerabilities apport vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Summary Several security issues were fixed in Apport. Software Description apport &#8211; automatically generate crash reports for debugging Details USN-4315-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apport. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escalate their privileges via a symlink attack. (CVE-2020-8831) Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered a race condition in Apport when setting crash report permissions. This could allow a local attacker to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack. (CVE-2020-8833) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM apport &#8211; 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm4 python-apport &#8211; 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm4 python3-apport &#8211; <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/usn-4315-2-apport-vulnerabilities\/\" title=\"USN-4315-2: Apport vulnerabilities\">[ more&#8230; ]<\/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-37254","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\/37254","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=37254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37255,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37254\/revisions\/37255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}