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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2845-1
December 18, 2015

sosreport vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

– Ubuntu 15.10
– Ubuntu 15.04
– Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

sosreport could be made to expose sensitive information or overwrite files
as the administrator.

Software Description:
– sosreport: Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system

Details:

Dolev Farhi discovered an information disclosure issue in SoS. If the
/etc/fstab file contained passwords, the passwords were included in the
SoS report. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3925)

Mateusz Guzik discovered that SoS incorrectly handled temporary files. A
local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files
or gain access to temporary file contents containing sensitive system
information. (CVE-2015-7529)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10:
sosreport 3.2-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 15.04:
sosreport 3.2-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
sosreport 3.1-1ubuntu2.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2845-1
CVE-2014-3925, CVE-2015-7529

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.2-2ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.2-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/3.1-1ubuntu2.2

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