Canonical Fixes Vulnerability in Apport for All Ubuntu Systems

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

An Apport vulnerability has been found and fixed in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. A fresh patch has been made available in the Ubuntu repos.

Apport is the application that is used to automatically generate crash reports for debugging. If you even saw what a crash looked like in Ubuntu, then you’ve already seen and used Apport. The trouble is that Apport could have been made to crash or to overwrite files as an administrator, and that cannot be a good… (read more)

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