{"id":"USN-4965-2","summary":"apport vulnerabilities","details":"USN-4965-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apport. This update provides\nthe corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.\nOriginal advisory details:\n\n Maik Münch discovered that Apport incorrectly handled certain information\n gathering operations. A local attacker could use these issues to read and\n write arbitrary files as an administrator, and possibly escalate\n 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