Tavis Ormandy discovered that Aptdeamon incorrectly handled the simulate dbus method. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly expose sensitive information, or perform other file access as the root user.
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"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2648-1.json"
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