{"id":"USN-7545-3","summary":"apport regression","details":"USN-7545-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. The update introduced a\nregression that raised an error if a crashing process was killed while\nApport was analyzing it. This update fixes the problem.\n\nWe apologize for the inconvenience.\n\nOriginal advisory details:\n\n Qualys discovered that Apport incorrectly handled metadata when\n processing application crashes. An attacker could possibly use this issue\n to leak sensitive 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