Packages
- snapd - Daemon and tooling that enable snap packages
Details
It was discovered that cloud-init as managed by snapd on Ubuntu Core 16 and
Ubuntu Core 18 devices ran on every boot without restrictions. A physical
attacker could exploit this to craft cloud-init user-data/meta-data via
external media to perform arbitrary changes on the device to bypass
intended security mechanisms such as full disk encryption. This issue did
not affect traditional Ubuntu systems. (CVE-2020-11933)
It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. A malicious snap
could exploit this to bypass intended access restrictions to control how
the host system xdg-open script opens the URL. This issue did not affect
Ubuntu Core systems. (CVE-2020-11934)
It was discovered that cloud-init as managed by snapd on Ubuntu Core 16 and
Ubuntu Core 18 devices ran on every boot without restrictions. A physical
attacker could exploit this to craft cloud-init user-data/meta-data via
external media to perform arbitrary changes on the device to bypass
intended security mechanisms such as full disk encryption. This issue did
not affect traditional Ubuntu systems. (CVE-2020-11933)
It was discovered that snapctl user-open allowed altering the XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment variable when calling the system xdg-open. A malicious snap
could exploit this to bypass intended access restrictions to control how
the host system xdg-open script opens the URL. This issue did not affect
Ubuntu Core systems. (CVE-2020-11934)
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. On Ubuntu, snapd will automatically refresh itself to snapd 2.45.2 which is unaffected.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 20.04 focal | snapd – 2.45.1+20.04.2 | ||
| 19.10 eoan | snapd – 2.45.1+19.10.2 | ||
| 18.04 bionic | snapd – 2.45.1+18.04.2 | ||
| 16.04 xenial | snapd – 2.45.1ubuntu0.2 | ||
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