~/.config/apport/settings parsing is vulnerable to billion laughs attack
Weakness
The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apport | Apport_project | * | 2.21.0 (excluding) |
| Apport | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | esm-infra-legacy/trusty | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | impish | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | lunar | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | oracular | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | plucky | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | questing | * |
| Apport | Ubuntu | trusty/esm | * |