Security Advisory

CVE-2021-32555

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-06-12 03:40:41
Last updated 2024-09-16 20:47:23
Assigner canonical
State PUBLISHED

Description

It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the xorg-hwe-18.04 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.