Executive Summary

Summary
Title Apport vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4051-1 First vendor Publication 2019-07-09
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-07-09
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 N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Apport could be made to expose sensitive information in crash reports.

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

Details:

Kevin Backhouse discovered a race-condition when reading the user's local Apport configuration. This could be used by a local attacker to cause Apport to include arbitrary files in a resulting crash report.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
python-apport 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
python3-apport 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
python-apport 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.4
python3-apport 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.4

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
python-apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
python3-apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
python-apport 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19
python3-apport 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4051-1
CVE-2019-7307

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.10-0ubuntu13.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4051-1

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Date Informations
2019-07-09 05:18:44
  • First insertion