USN-3354-1: Apport vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3354-1

18th 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 version:

Ubuntu 17.04:

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions: