The vulnerability of the apport operating system’s error registration service allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the apport operating system’s error registration service is related to an incorrect definition of the link before accessing the file. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code...

The vulnerability of the apport operating system’s error registration service, related to synchronization errors when using a shared resource, allows a malicious actor to create a publicly accessible report of the software bug for privileged processes.

The vulnerability of the apport operating system’s error registration service is related to synchronization errors when using a shared resource. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to create a publicly accessible report of the software bug for privileged processes...

Apport Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Apport is a toolkit for collecting and giving feedback on error messages information that the operating system finds useful when an application crashes. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Apport that stems from assigning secure permissions to a created lock file. A local attacker c...

USN-4315-1 apport vulnerabilities

Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escalate their privileges via a symlink attack. CVE-2020-8831 Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered a race condition in Apport when setting crash report permissions...

USN-4315-1: Apport vulnerabilities

Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escalate their privileges via a symlink attack. CVE-2020-8831 Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered a race condition in Apport when setting crash report permissions...

PT-2020-20314 · Canonical · Apport +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apport versions prior to 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23 Apport versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14 Apport versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 Apport versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu22 Description: A Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition issue exist...

PT-2020-5173 · Canonical · Apport +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apport versions prior to 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23 Apport versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14 Apport versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 Apport versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu22 Description: The issue is related to Apport creating a world-writab...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Apport vulnerabilities (USN-4315-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4315-1 advisory. Maximilien Bourgeteau discovered that the Apport lock file was created with insecure permissions. This could allow a local attacker to escala...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8833

Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition vulnerability on crash report ownership change in Apport allows for a possible privilege escalation opportunity. If fs.protectedsymlinks is disabled, this can be exploited between the os.open and os.chown calls when the Apport cron script clears out crash...

CVE-2020-8833

Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition vulnerability on crash report ownership change in Apport allows for a possible privilege escalation opportunity. If fs.protectedsymlinks is disabled, this can be exploited between the os.open and os.chown calls when the Apport cron script clears out crash...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8831

Apport creates a world writable lock file with root ownership in the world writable /var/lock/apport directory. If the apport/ directory does not exist this is not uncommon as /var/lock is a tmpfs, it will create the directory, otherwise it will simply continue execution using the existing...

CVE-2020-8831

Apport creates a world writable lock file with root ownership in the world writable /var/lock/apport directory. If the apport/ directory does not exist this is not uncommon as /var/lock is a tmpfs, it will create the directory, otherwise it will simply continue execution using the existing...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4315-1)

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-4171-5 apport regression

USN-4171-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. This caused a regression in autopkgtest and python2 compatibility. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as the root...

USN-4171-5: Apport regression

USN-4171-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. This caused a regression in autopkgtest and python2 compatibility. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as the root...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4171-5)

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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Apport regression (USN-4171-5)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4171-5 advisory. USN-4171-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. This caused a regression in autopkgtest and python2 compatibility. This update fixes the problem. We...

CVE-2019-11483

Sander Bos discovered Apport mishandled crash dumps originating from containers. This could be used by a local attacker to generate a crash report for a privileged process that is readable by an unprivileged user...

CVE-2019-11482

Sander Bos discovered a time of check to time of use TOCTTOU vulnerability in apport that allowed a user to cause core files to be written in arbitrary directories...

CVE-2019-11483

Sander Bos discovered Apport mishandled crash dumps originating from containers. This could be used by a local attacker to generate a crash report for a privileged process that is readable by an unprivileged user...