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 Race condition between reading current working directory and writing a core dump

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

CVE-2019-11482 affects Ubuntu Apport: a TOCTTOU flaw during core-dump handling could allow a local user to have core files written in arbitrary directories. Documented impact is local, with no exploitation probability given. Concretely, Apport mishandles crash dumps, enabling core file writes to ...

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...

CVE-2019-11483

CVE-2019-11483 affects the Ubuntu Apport package. The issue arises from mishandling crash dumps originating from containers, potentially allowing a local attacker to generate a crash report for a privileged process that is readable by an unprivileged user. Connected advisories (USN-4171-5/6) indi...

CVE-2019-11481 Apport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlink

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...

CVE-2019-11481

CVE-2019-11481 affects Ubuntu Apport: a local attacker could cause Apport to read a configuration file with root privileges by replacing the file with a symbolic link, allowing read access to arbitrary files as root. Root cause is the handling of user-supplied settings during crash-dump/report ge...

CVE-2019-11481: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

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-2019-11482: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

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: Undefined Security Weakness

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: Unrestricted Externally Accessible Lock

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

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4171-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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-4171-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4171-3 advisory. USN-4171-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. The update caused a regression in the Python Apport library. This update fixes the problem. We apologize f...

USN-4171-4 apport regression

USN-4171-1 fixed a vulnerability in Apport. The update caused a regression in the Python Apport library. This update fixes the problem for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings fil...

USN-4171-4: Apport regression

USN-4171-1 fixed a vulnerability in Apport. The update caused a regression in the Python Apport library. This update fixes the problem for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings fil...

USN-4171-3 apport regression

USN-4171-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. The update caused a regression in the Python Apport library. 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 user...

USN-4171-3: Apport regression

USN-4171-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apport. The update caused a regression in the Python Apport library. 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 user...