Bug 1191219 (CVE-2021-3710)

Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2021-3710: apport,apport-crashdb-sle: An information disclosure via path traversal was discovered in apport/hookutils.py function read_file()
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Gabriele Sonnu <gabriele.sonnu>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Matej Cepl <mcepl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	smash_bz
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/311482/
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Gabriele Sonnu 2021-10-01 10:35:05 UTC

An information disclosure via path traversal was discovered in
apport/hookutils.py function read_file(). This issue affects: apport 2.14.1
versions prior to 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm8; 2.20.1 versions prior to
2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm2; 2.20.9 versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.26; 2.20.11
versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20; 2.20.11 versions prior to
2.20.11-0ubuntu65.3;

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-3710
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3710
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3710
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5077-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5077-2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1933832

Comment 1 Gabriele Sonnu 2021-10-01 10:35:22 UTC

None of our packages is affected.