Ubuntu Security Update USN-4051-1: Apport vulnerability

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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

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