CVE-2026-54228 Abrt: toctou race condition in abrt-dbus setelement allows arbitrary file writes to dump directories

A time-of-check time-of-use TOCTOU race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's SetElement method. Between dump directory creation and post-create event execution, any local user can call SetElement to write arbitrary text files into the root-owned dump directory, bypassing package...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-54228

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A time-of-check time-of-use TOCTOU race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's SetElement method. Between dump directory creation and post-create...

PT-2026-49074

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions abrt-dbus affected versions not specified Description A race condition exists in the ChownProblemDir method of the abrt-dbus D-Bus service. The ChownProblemDir method opens the dump directory using DD OPEN READONLY and executes dd chown to...

PT-2026-49076

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libreport affected versions not specified Description A content injection issue exists in the ABRT post-create event handler scripts within libreport. The event script retrieves log entries from the systemd journal for crashed processes and...

PT-2026-49073

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions abrt-dbus affected versions not specified Description A time-of-check time-of-use TOCTOU race condition exists in the SetElement method of the abrt-dbus D-Bus service. A TOCTOU race condition occurs when a program checks a condition such as a...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-54229

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A race condition was found in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service's ChownProblemDir method. ChownProblemDir opens the dump directory with DDOPENREADONLY and calls ddcho...

USN-5122-2 apport vulnerability

USN-5122-1 fixed a vulnerability in Apport. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Apport could be tricked into writing core files as root into arbitrary directories in certain scenarios. A local...

abrt: incorrect permissions on /var/spool/abrt

It was discovered that the kernel-invoked coredump processor provided by ABRT did not handle symbolic links correctly when writing core dumps of ABRT programs to the ABRT dump directory /var/spool/abrt. A local attacker with write access to an ABRT problem directory could use this flaw to escalat...