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Ubuntu 15.10 LTS USN-2845-1 Critical: sosreport File Issues

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2015
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2846-1 addresses vulnerabilities in the systemd package impacting various versions with guidance for remediation.
sosreport could be made to expose sensitive information or overwrite filesas the administrator.

Summary

sosreport could be made to expose sensitive information or overwrite files

as the administrator.

Software Description:

- sosreport: Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system

Details:

Dolev Farhi discovered an information disclosure issue in SoS. If the

/etc/fstab file contained passwords, the passwords were included in the

SoS report. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3925)

Mateusz Guzik discovered that SoS incorrectly handled temporary files. A

local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files

or gain access to temporary file contents containing sensitive system

information. (CVE-2015-7529)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical file overwrite information exposure ubuntu sosreport

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10:
  sosreport                       3.2-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 15.04:
  sosreport                       3.2-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  sosreport                       3.1-1ubuntu2.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2845-1

CVE-2014-3925, CVE-2015-7529

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December 18, 2015

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical file overwrite information exposure ubuntu sosreport

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.2-2ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.2-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.1-1ubuntu2.2

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