Ubuntu Security Update USN-4661-1: Snapcraft vulnerability

[LinuxBot]

It was discovered that Snapcraft includes the current directory when configuring LD_LIBRARY_PATH for application commands. If a user were tricked into installing a malicious snap or downloading a malicious library, under certain circumstances an attacker could exploit this to affect strict mode snaps that have access to the library and when launched from the directory containing the library.

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