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Unscored USN-7545-4 0 CVEs

apport regression

Published Aug 4, 2025 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Summary

USN-7545-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. The update incorrectly
handled logging if a crashing process was killed while Apport was
analyzing it. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Qualys discovered that Apport incorrectly handled metadata when
processing application crashes. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to leak sensitive information.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS apport 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.31
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS apport 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.10
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS apport 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm8
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.29+esm4

References

  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/2117236