Package "apport"

  apport (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.27) bionic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Privilege escalation via core files
    - refactor privilege dropping and create core files in a well-known
      directory in apport/fileutils.py, apport/report.py, data/apport,
      test/test_fileutils.py, test/test_report.py,
      test/test_signal_crashes.py, test/test_ui.py.
    - use systemd-tmpfiles to create and manage the well-known core file
      directory in setup.py, data/systemd/apport.conf,
      debian/apport.install.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:48:31 -0400

  apport (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.26) bionic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Arbitrary file read (LP: #1934308)
    - data/general-hooks/ubuntu.py: don't attempt to include emacs
      byte-compilation logs, they haven't been generated by the emacs
      packages in a long time.
    - CVE-2021-3709
  * SECURITY UPDATE: Info disclosure via path traversal (LP: #1933832)
    - apport/hookutils.py, test/test_hookutils.py: detect path traversal
      attacks, and directory symlinks.
    - CVE-2021-3710

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:56:33 -0400

  apport (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.24) bionic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Multiple arbitrary file reads (LP: #1917904)
    - apport/hookutils.py: don't follow symlinks and make sure the file
      isn't a FIFO in read_file().
    - test/test_hookutils.py: added symlink tests.
    - CVE-2021-32547, CVE-2021-32548, CVE-2021-32549, CVE-2021-32550,
      CVE-2021-32551, CVE-2021-32552, CVE-2021-32553, CVE-2021-32554,
      CVE-2021-32555
  * SECURITY UPDATE: info disclosure via modified config files spoofing
    (LP: #1917904)
    - backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py: properly terminate arguments in
      get_modified_conffiles.
    - CVE-2021-32556
  * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary file write (LP: #1917904)
    - data/whoopsie-upload-all: don't follow symlinks and make sure the
      file isn't a FIFO in process_report().
    - CVE-2021-32557

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Tue, 18 May 2021 09:15:10 -0400

  apport (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23) bionic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: multiple security issues (LP: #1912326)
    - CVE-2021-25682: error parsing /proc/pid/status
    - CVE-2021-25683: error parsing /proc/pid/stat
    - CVE-2021-25684: stuck reading fifo
    - data/apport: make sure existing report is a regular file.
    - apport/fileutils.py: move some logic here to skip over manipulated
      process names and filenames.
    - test/test_fileutils.py: added some parsing tests.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:21:46 -0500

  apport (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.21) bionic; urgency=medium

  * data/apport: only drop supplemental groups if the user is root. (LP: #1906565)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:39:34 -0800