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Ubuntu 21.04 USN-5077-1 Moderate: Apport Sensitivity Issue

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple vulnerabilities addressed in Apport for Ubuntu versions, improving safeguards against information exposure.
Several security issues were fixed in Apport.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Apport.

Software Description:

- apport: automatically generate crash reports for debugging

Details:

Maik Münch and Stephen Röttger discovered that Apport incorrectly handled

certain information gathering operations. A local attacker could use this

issue to gain read access to arbitrary files, possibly containing sensitive

information.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Ubuntu sensitive information data access apport

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.04:
  apport                          2.20.11-0ubuntu65.3
  python3-apport                  2.20.11-0ubuntu65.3

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  apport                          2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20
  python3-apport                  2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  apport                          2.20.9-0ubuntu7.26
  python-apport                   2.20.9-0ubuntu7.26
  python3-apport                  2.20.9-0ubuntu7.26

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5077-1

CVE-2021-3709, CVE-2021-3710

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September 14, 2021

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Ubuntu sensitive information data access apport

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.11-0ubuntu65.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.9-0ubuntu7.26

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