[Bug 1903332] Re: Apport get_config incorrectly drops privileges

[Marc Deslauriers]

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Title:
  Apport get_config incorrectly drops privileges

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Privilege dropping code here drops uid before gid instead of the
  correct order of gid before uid. Likely this code fails and is caught
  by the try statement:

  https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/tree/apport/fileutils.py?h=applied/ubuntu
  /focal-devel&id=94d98694e19b5614f3a764a9e4dcf171ad5039a5#n339

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