CVE-2020-15702

CVE-2020-15702 describes a TOCTOU race condition in the Apport component of Ubuntu. The vulnerability allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and potentially execute arbitrary code by exploiting PID recycling after a crash, enabling a root process to inherit the crashed process’ PID. Affec...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Apport vulnerabilities (USN-4449-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4449-1 advisory. Ryota Shiga working with Trend Micros Zero Day Initiative, discovered that Apport incorrectly dropped privileges when making...

Apport Configuration Parsing Vulnerability

Apport is a toolkit for collecting and giving feedback on error messages information that the operating system finds useful when an application crashes. A security vulnerability exists in Apport that stems from the program failing to properly parse configuration files. A local attacker could...

Apport Competitive Conditions Issue Vulnerability

Apport is a toolkit for collecting and giving feedback on error messages information that the operating system finds useful when an application crashes. A Competing Conditions Issue vulnerability exists in Apport. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges and execute...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4449-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-4449-1: Apport vulnerabilities

Ryota Shiga working with Trend Micro´s Zero Day Initiative, discovered that Apport incorrectly dropped privileges when making certain D-Bus calls. A local attacker could use this issue to read arbitrary files. CVE-2020-11936 Seong-Joong Kim discovered that Apport incorrectly parsed configuration...

USN-4449-1 apport vulnerabilities

Ryota Shiga working with Trend Micro´s Zero Day Initiative, discovered that Apport incorrectly dropped privileges when making certain D-Bus calls. A local attacker could use this issue to read arbitrary files. CVE-2020-11936 Seong-Joong Kim discovered that Apport incorrectly parsed configuration...

CVE-2020-15702

TOCTOU Race Condition vulnerability in apport allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. An attacker may exit the crashed process and exploit PID recycling to spawn a root process with the same PID as the crashed process, which can then be used to escalate...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15702

TOCTOU Race Condition vulnerability in apport allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. An attacker may exit the crashed process and exploit PID recycling to spawn a root process with the same PID as the crashed process, which can then be used to escalate...

PT-2020-3585 · Canonical +2 · Apport +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: gdbus versions affected versions not specified apport versions affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a privilege escalation in gdbus and an information disclosure vulnerability in the apport error reporting...

PT-2020-3489 · Canonical +1 · Apport +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: apport versions prior to 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24 apport versions 2.20.9 prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.16 apport versions 2.20.11 prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6 Description: The issue exists due to insufficient checking of a shared resource's state in the...

USN-4315-2: Apport vulnerabilities

USN-4315-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apport. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escalate their...

USN-4315-2 apport vulnerabilities

USN-4315-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apport. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escalate their...

CVE-2020-15701

An unhandled exception in checkignored in apport/report.py can be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of service. If the mtime attribute is a string value in apport-ignore.xml, it will trigger an unhandled exception, resulting in a crash. Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1...

PT-2020-3507 · Canonical +1 · Apport +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: apport versions prior to 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24 apport versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.16 apport versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6 Description: The issue is related to an unhandled exception in the check ignored function in apport/report.py...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15701

An unhandled exception in checkignored in apport/report.py can be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of service. If the mtime attribute is a string value in apport-ignore.xml, it will trigger an unhandled exception, resulting in a crash. Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1...

CVE-2019-15790

Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges. Apport then determines which user the crashed process belongs to by reading /proc/pid through getpidinfo in data/apport. An unprivileged user could exploit this to read information about a privileged...

CVE-2019-15790

Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges. Apport then determines which user the crashed process belongs to by reading /proc/pid through getpidinfo in data/apport. An unprivileged user could exploit this to read information about a privileged...

Memory corruption

Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges. Apport then determines which user the crashed process belongs to by reading /proc/pid through getpidinfo in data/apport. An unprivileged user could exploit this to read information about a privileged...

CVE-2019-15790

CVE-2019-15790 concerns Ubuntu’s Apport crash-dump handling. The records show an unprivileged user could read information about a privileged process from /proc/pid and use it to obtain ASLR offsets for a memory-corruption vulnerability, via PID recycling. The root cause involves Apport reading/wr...