vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-11481): Apport vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 30, 2019
Added
Oct 31, 2019
Modified
Jan 23, 2025

Description

Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-apportubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-apportubuntu-pro-upgrade-python3-apport
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