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TITLE:
Apport Cleanup Race Condition Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34947

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34947/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Apport, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to manipulate certain data.

The security issue is caused due to a race condition within the
cleanup cron job /etc/cron.daily/apport, which can be exploited to
e.g. delete arbitrary folders by changing existing subfolders of
/var/crash/ into symlinks while certain stages of the cleanup job are
running.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.1.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.1.1 or apply patch.
https://launchpad.net/apport/trunk/1.1.1

Patch:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/1421

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Stephane Chazelas

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://launchpad.net/apport/+announcement/2601

USN-768-1:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2009-April/000895.html

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