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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-25683): Apport vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-25683): Apport vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/02/2021
Created
02/05/2021
Added
02/03/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-apport
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-apport
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-apport

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