Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in #apport and #systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in #Ubuntu, #RedHat Enterprise #Linux, and #Fedora, according to the #Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU).

Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both #vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. Tools like Apport and systemd-coredump are designed to handle crash reporting and core dumps in Linux systems.

https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/new-linux-flaws-allow-password-hash.html

De succesvolste kattenspeeltjes hier in huis? Die dure met catnip erin. Maar met stip op plek 1,5: sluitstrips van vuilniszakken. In een spiraal gedraaid. Die worden gegooid, gevangen, geschoven, getikt, besprongen en vooral: teruggebracht naar mij. #apport

The easy way to disable error reporting in Ubuntu:

sudo apt purge apport apport-gtk whoopsie

#ubuntu #linux #apport

Found some #incompatibility between #lightdm and #w3m . Curiously this apparently begun after I started accessing #gemini (but I cannot prove it; perhaps it's just a coincidence?). Anyway, cleaned /var/crash and reinstalled everything including #apport. Let's see what happens on the next reboot...

Do we have an #Apport #crash #gathering here?
#KDE

Except for #Apport is there anything else I should lookout for when it comes to #privacy issues in #Xubuntu 18.04? Sites like distrochooser.de claim that any #Ubuntu flavour is contacting third parties but I cannot find anything to back that up...
#Linux #Canonical

God knows if that'll mean #apport is any more useful next time #Kleopatra crashes.

I live in hope (;*

#Disco #Ubuntu

Why is #apport so crap?

I killed an application because it froze, and apport decided to suggest I report it, I chose not to, and then apport decided that everything else currently running had crashed. None of it had.

Very nearly had to kill apport, it was getting annoying, only it finally decided it had wasted enough of my time and killed itself.

#Kubuntu #Bionic