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...

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...

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-2019-11483

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-2019-11485

Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling...

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-2019-11482

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-2019-11485

Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling...

CVE-2019-11481

Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences...

CVE-2019-11481

Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences...

Design/Logic Flaw

Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling...

Code injection

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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-2019-11485 apport created lock file in wrong directory

Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling...

CVE-2019-11485

CVE-2019-11485 affects the Ubuntu Apport package: the lock file is created in a world-writable directory, allowing a local authenticated user to prevent crash handling. This is a local-priority issue with low to moderate impact as described, and remediation is via the corresponding Ubuntu securit...