USN-2648-1: Aptdaemon vulnerability

16 June 2015

Aptdaemon could be made to expose sensitive information, or allow file access as the administrator.

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Releases

Packages

  • aptdaemon - transaction based package management service

Details

Tavis Ormandy discovered that Aptdeamon incorrectly handled the simulate
dbus method. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly expose
sensitive information, or perform other file access as the root user.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.10
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

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