Workaround I used when creating a bug recently is to:
1. Follow the offline bug collection steps described at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Filing_bugs_when_offline_or_using_a_headless_setup
2. Redact the .apport file. For example:
# Replace USERNAME, HOSTNAME, IP_ADDRESS placeholders, albeit you will have to
escape periods in the IP_ADDRESS. eg. \.
sed -E -e 's/USERNAME/redacted_username/g ; s/HOSTNAME/redacted_hostname/g ;
s/IP_ADDRESS/redacted_ip_address/g' out.apport > out-redacted.apport
# Check it
git diff --color-words out.apport out-redacted.apport
# Check it again
grep -i -P 'USERNAME|HOSTNAME|IP_ADDRESS' out-redacted.apport
3. Raise the bug offline using the command on the wiki link above:
ubuntu-bug out-redacted.apport
The .apport file was observed to contain username, hostname and ip
address, which may be useful to an attacker when enumerating a target's
assets.
In my case, the offending files observed were as follows, where the
offending text within has been replaced with "redacted_" as above,
albeit the content containing the username did not seem to be uploaded
to launchpad:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/751099730/CurrentDmesg.txt
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/751099753/WifiSyslog.txt
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1676023
Title:
apport leaks hostname
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Apport leaks the machine's hostname in the log files when uploading
logs to Launchpad.
File CurrentDmesg.txt has the line:
[ 6.690523] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <foo>.
File XorgLog.txt and XorgLogOld.txt has the line:
[ 293.791] Current Operating System: Linux foo 4.10.0-14-generic #16-Ubuntu
SMP Fri Mar 17 15:19:26 UTC 2017 x86_64
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: apport 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-14.16-generic 4.10.3
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Classic:GNOME
Date: Sat Mar 25 11:21:04 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-26 (1184 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64
(20131016.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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