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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS USN-3784-1 Moderate: AppArmor Policy Improvements

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Use a more restrictive blacklist in several policy abstractions.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3784-1
October 04, 2018

AppArmor update
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Use a more restrictive blacklist in several policy abstractions.

Software Description:
- apparmor: Linux security system

Details:

As a security improvement, this update adjusts the private-files abstraction to
disallow writing to thumbnailer configuration files. Additionally adjust the
private-files, private-files-strict and user-files abstractions to disallow
writes on parent directories of sensitive files.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  apparmor                        2.12-4ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  apparmor                        2.10.95-0ubuntu2.10

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  apparmor                        2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6~14.04.4

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

References:
  
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1788929, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/1794848

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/2.12-4ubuntu5.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/2.10.95-0ubuntu2.10
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6~14.04.4

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS USN-3784-1 Moderate: AppArmor Policy Improvements

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2018
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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3784-1 outlines a significant AppArmor enhancement aimed at bolstering security in various Ubuntu LTS distributions.
Use a more restrictive blacklist in several policy abstractions.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: apparmor 2.12-4ubuntu5.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: apparmor 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: apparmor 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6~14.04.4 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1788929, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/1794848

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October 04, 2018

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/2.12-4ubuntu5.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/2.10.95-0ubuntu2.10 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6~14.04.4

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