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8 February 2020

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  • Low 3.3

    apport created lock file in wrong directory

    Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling.

  • Low 3.8

    Apport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlink

    Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences.