Memory corruption

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...

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...

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...