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Ubuntu: USN-3784-1: AppArmor update

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Ubuntu: USN-3784-1: AppArmor update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/04/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/16/2018
Modified
08/05/2020

Description

As a security improvement, this update adjusts the private-files abstraction to disallow writing to thumbnailer configuration files. Additionally adjust the private-files, private-files-strict and user-files abstractions to disallow writes on parent directories of sensitive files.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-apparmor

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