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[Bug 1029189] Re: ProcMaps.txt may contain private information such as username

 

This bug important is marked as high and it has been years and this
issue has still not been resolved.

There could be a search-and-replace on $USER.
There could also be a search-and-replace on /home/*/

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Title:
  ProcMaps.txt may contain private information such as username

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The ProcMaps.txt file that gets uploaded to Launchpad may contain
  private information such as username that can be obtained from the
  path of the home directory.

  7fbd44c33000-7fbd44c34000 r--s 00000000 08:01 1306557
  /home/alice/.local/share/mime/mime.cache

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