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USN-8779-1: Bubblewrap vulnerabilities

Severity not listed 2 CVEs Published Sep 17, 2026 at 3:50 PM UTC

Summary

It was discovered that Bubblewrap incorrectly handled certain temporary directories. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-12439)

It was discovered that Bubblewrap incorrectly handled certain symlinks during sandbox setup. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to create files outside of the sandbox. (CVE-2026-87766)

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CVEs in this advisory 2

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