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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: USN-5077-2 Severe Vulnerability in Apport Disclosure

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5077-2 addresses vulnerabilities in Apport that affect essential distributions, providing instructions for necessary updates.
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:

USN-5077-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apport. This update provides

the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory 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

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
  apport                          2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm2
  python-apport                   2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm2
  python3-apport                  2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm2

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
  apport                          2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm8
  python-apport                   2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm8
  python3-apport                  2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm8

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5077-2

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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