USN-768-1: Apport vulnerability

29 April 2009

Apport vulnerability

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

  • Ubuntu 9.04
  • Ubuntu 8.10
  • Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Software Description

  • apport

Details

Stephane Chazelas discovered that Apport did not safely remove files from its crash report directory. If Apport had been enabled at some point, a local attacker could remove arbitrary files from the system.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.04
apport - 1.0-0ubuntu5.2
Ubuntu 8.10
apport - 0.119.2
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
apport - 0.108.4

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

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