USN-3664-1 apport vulnerability

Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled core dumps when certain files are missing from /proc. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, gain root privileges, or escape from containers...

Apport Service Privilege Escalation

The vulnerability of the Apport service on the Ubuntu operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, operating locally, to obtain root privileges and modify arbitrary files by improperly handling permissions when creating...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1324

Apport before 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1 as packaged in Ubuntu 15.04, before 2.14.70ubuntu8.5 as packaged in Ubuntu 14.10, before 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11 as packaged in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and before 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.9 as packaged in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS allow local users to write to arbitrary files and gain root...