cve-2021-32556
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-06-12 03:40
Modified
2024-09-16 19:51
Severity ?
3.8 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
It was discovered that the get_modified_conffiles() function in backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py allowed injecting modified package names in a manner that would confuse the dpkg(1) call.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1917904Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1917904Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical apport Version: 2.20.1   < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm1
Version: 2.20.9   < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.24
Version: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27   < 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
Version: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50   < 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.7
Version: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65   < 2.20.11-0ubuntu65.1
Version: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3   < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm7
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