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...

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...

USN-4171-2: Apport vulnerabilities

USN-4171-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in apport. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as the root user. This could be used by a local attacker to possibly...

USN-4171-2 apport vulnerabilities

USN-4171-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in apport. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as the root user. This could be used by a local attacker to possibly...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4171-1)

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...

USN-4171-1: Apport vulnerabilities

Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as the root user. This could be used by a local attacker to possibly crash Apport or have other unspecified consequences. CVE-2019-11481 Sander Bos discovered a race-condition in Apport during core dump creation. This...

USN-4171-1 apport vulnerabilities

Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as the root user. This could be used by a local attacker to possibly crash Apport or have other unspecified consequences. CVE-2019-11481 Sander Bos discovered a race-condition in Apport during core dump creation. This...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Apport vulnerabilities (USN-4171-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4171-1 advisory. Kevin Backhouse discovered Apport would read its user-controlled settings file as the root user. This could be used by a local attacker to...

UBUNTU-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...

UBUNTU-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-2019-11483

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...

PT-2019-4765 · Canonical · Apport +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apport versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu16 Apport versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6 Apport versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12 Apport versions prior to 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.22 Apport versions prior to 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm3 Description: The...

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...