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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : apport update (USN-1668-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63288

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Dan Rosenberg discovered that an application running under an AppArmor profile that allowed unconfined execution of apport-bug could escape confinement by calling apport-bug with a crafted environment. While not a vulnerability in apport itself, this update mitigates the issue by sanitizing certain variables in the apport-bug shell script.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected apport package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1668-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63288

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1668-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apport, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2012

Reference Information

USN: 1668-1