Ubuntu
apport package

privacy invasion

Bug #154673 reported by StefanPotyra
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apport (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: apport

Hi,

after having been told about ubuntu-bug, I'd thought to give it a try after reading the manpage.
Instead of doing s.th. like reportbug though, it sended (probably, guessing from its output) unknown personal data from myself to somewhere else, Hence I'm marking it as security vulnerability.

At least it opened the bug page to report a bug.

Cheers,
     Stefan.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 20 03:18:01 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Uname: Linux suut 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 05:28:36 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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StefanPotyra (sistpoty) wrote :

Hi,

sorry for having this filed as security bug in the first place, I just was very baffled about it suddenly transferring information. I guess the manpage should get updated.

IIRC, it didn't open a gtk widget, when I filed the bug, but display some text messages instead (maybe the cli-thingy), but I'm not 100% sure about this. I started it from within konsole, however I don't have apport-qt installed (but as it seems apport-gtk).

Cheers,
     Stefan.

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Basilio Kublik (sourcercito) wrote :

Hi Stefan
This seem fairly similar to bug #132800, could you please check and see if address the same issue, so we can make this report a duplicate of that one?.

Thanks

Changed in apport:
status: New → Incomplete
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StefanPotyra (sistpoty) wrote :

Yep, marking as duplicate.

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