CVE-2019-11485 Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash…

Description

Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling.

Affected products and versions

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
apport 2.20	2.20.1 → < 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1	2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20
apport 2.14	2.14.1 → < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2	2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2

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