USN-1676-1: AppArmor update

19 December 2012

A weakness was discovered in the example AppArmor profile for chromium-browser.

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Dan Rosenberg discovered that the example AppArmor profile for
chromium-browser could be escaped by calling xdg-settings with a crafted
environment.

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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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