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GSD-2021-32549

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23
Details
It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-13 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.
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