CVE-2009-1295

CVE-2009-1295 affects Apport crash reporter in Ubuntu 8.04/8.10/9.04 where the crash-report directory is not cleaned properly, allowing local users to delete arbitrary files via unspecified vectors. The issue is confirmed by multiple connected sources: Ubuntu USN-768-1 notes the affected Ubuntu r...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : Apport vulnerability (USN-768-1)

Stephane Chazelas discovered that Apport did not safely remove files from its crash report directory. If Apport had been enabled at some point, a local attacker could remove arbitrary files from the system. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...