Link Following Affecting apport package, versions <2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
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0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2004-APPORT-1296784
- published 26 May 2021
- disclosed 12 Jun 2021
Introduced: 26 May 2021
CVE-2021-32549 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04
apport
to version 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apport
package and not the apport
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:20.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-13 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.
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