USN-3157-1: Apport vulnerabilities

Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that the crash file parser in Apport improperly treated the CrashDB field as python code. An attacker could use this to convince a user to open a maliciously crafted crash file and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user. This issue only affected...

CVE-2016-9950

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. There is a path traversal issue in the Apport crash file "Package" and "SourcePackage" fields. These fields are used to build a path to the package specific hook files in the /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/ directory. An attacker can exploit this...

CVE-2016-9949

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. In apport/ui.py, Apport reads the CrashDB field and it then evaluates the field as Python code if it begins with a "". This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9949

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. In apport/ui.py, Apport reads the CrashDB field and it then evaluates the field as Python code if it begins with a "". This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code...

Apport 2.x (Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 16.04) - Local Code Execution

Apport 2.x Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 16.04 - Local Code Execution Both of these issues were reported to the Apport maintainers and a fix was released on 2016-12-14. The CrashDB code injection issue can be tracked with CVE-2016-9949 and the path traversal bug with CVE-2016-9950. An additional problem...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9950

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. There is a path traversal issue in the Apport crash file "Package" and "SourcePackage" fields. These fields are used to build a path to the package specific hook files in the /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/ directory. An attacker can exploit this...

Apport 2.x (Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 < 16.04) - Local Code Execution

Both of these issues were reported to the Apport maintainers and a fix was released on 2016-12-14. The CrashDB code injection issue can be tracked with CVE-2016-9949 and the path traversal bug with CVE-2016-9950. An additional problem where arbitrary commands can be called with the “Relaunch”...

CVE-2016-9951

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. A malicious Apport crash file can contain a restart command in RespawnCommand or ProcCmdline fields. This command will be executed if a user clicks the Relaunch button on the Apport prompt from the malicious crash file. The fix is to only show the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9951

An issue was discovered in Apport before 2.20.4. A malicious Apport crash file can contain a restart command in RespawnCommand or ProcCmdline fields. This command will be executed if a user clicks the Relaunch button on the Apport prompt from the malicious crash file. The fix is to only show the...

[USN-2782-1] Apport vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2782-1 October 27, 2015 apport vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2782-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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 14.04 LTS : Apport vulnerability (USN-2782-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2782-1 advisory. Gabriel Campana discovered that Apport incorrectly handled Python module imports. A local attacker could use this issue to elevate privileges. Tenable has extract...

USN-2782-1: Apport vulnerability

Gabriel Campana discovered that Apport incorrectly handled Python module imports. A local attacker could use this issue to elevate privileges...

USN-2782-1 apport vulnerability

Gabriel Campana discovered that Apport incorrectly handled Python module imports. A local attacker could use this issue to elevate privileges...

CVE-2015-1341

Any Python module in sys.path can be imported if the command line of the process triggering the coredump is Python and the first argument is -m in Apport before 2.19.2 function pythonmodulepath...

[USN-2744-1] Apport vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2744-1 September 24, 2015 apport vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

Apport Denial of Service Vulnerability

Apport is a toolkit for Ubuntu that collects and gives feedback on error messages information that the operating system finds useful when an application crashes. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in versions prior to Apport 2.19, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or...

CVE-2015-1338

kernelcrashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption or possibly gain privileges via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log...

Hardcoded credentials

kernelcrashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption or possibly gain privileges via a 1 symlink or 2 hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log...

CVE-2015-1338

CVE-2015-1338 affects the Apport crash-dump handling in Linux environments (kernel_crashdump) prior to version 2.19. A local attacker could exploit insecure crash dump file handling to cause a denial of service via disk consumption or potentially elevate privileges through symlink or hard link at...