USN-3784-1: AppArmor update

Publication date

4 October 2018

Overview

Use a more restrictive blocklist in several policy abstractions.


Packages

Details

As a security improvement, this update adjusts the private-files abstraction to
disallow writing to thumbnailer configuration files. Additionally adjust the
private-files, private-files-strict and user-files abstractions to disallow
writes on parent directories of sensitive files.

As a security improvement, this update adjusts the private-files abstraction to
disallow writing to thumbnailer configuration files. Additionally adjust the
private-files, private-files-strict and user-files abstractions to disallow
writes on parent directories of sensitive files.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
18.04 bionic apparmor –  2.12-4ubuntu5.1
16.04 xenial apparmor –  2.10.95-0ubuntu2.10
14.04 trusty apparmor –  2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6~14.04.4

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