apport vulnerability

18 July 2017

apport vulnerability

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

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

An attacker could trick a user into opening a malicious .crash file and execute arbitrary code as the user.

Software Description

• apport - automatically generate crash reports for debugging

Details

Felix Wilhelm discovered a path traversal vulnerability in Apport when handling the ExecutablePath field in crash files. An attacker could trick a user into opening a specially crafted crash file and execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04

apport - 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5

python-apport - 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5

python3-apport - 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5

Ubuntu 16.10

apport - 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.7

python-apport - 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.7

python3-apport - 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.7

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

apport - 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10

python-apport - 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10

python3-apport - 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

apport - 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25

python-apport - 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25

python3-apport - 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25

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

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-10708