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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-25682): Apport vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Feb 2, 2021

Added

Feb 3, 2021

Modified

Apr 16, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the get_pid_info() function in data/apport did not properly parse the /proc/pid/status file from the kernel.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-apportubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-apportubuntu-pro-upgrade-python3-apportubuntu-upgrade-apportubuntu-upgrade-python-apportubuntu-upgrade-python3-apport

References

CVE-2021-25682
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-25682
CWE-20
CWE-74
EUVD-EUVD-2021-12574
NVD-CVE-2021-25682
UBUNTU-USN-4720-1
UBUNTU-USN-4720-2
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-12574

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