Executive Summary

Summary
Title Apport vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2782-1 First vendor Publication 2015-10-27
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-10-27
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score Not Defined Attack Range Not Defined
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Cvss Expoit Score Not Defined Authentication Not Defined
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 15.10 - Ubuntu 15.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Apport could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - apport: automatically generate crash reports for debugging

Details:

Gabriel Campana discovered that Apport incorrectly handled Python module imports. A local attacker could use this issue to elevate privileges.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
apport 2.19.1-0ubuntu4

Ubuntu 15.04:
apport 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.7

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
apport 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.18

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
apport 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.13

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2782-1
CVE-2015-1341

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.19.1-0ubuntu4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.17.2-0ubuntu1.7
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.14.1-0ubuntu3.18
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.0.1-0ubuntu17.13

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2782-1

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Date Informations
2015-10-29 13:24:02
  • Multiple Updates
2015-10-27 17:19:33
  • First insertion