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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-15702): Apport vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-15702): Apport vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/04/2020
Created
08/07/2020
Added
08/05/2020
Modified
01/28/2025

Description

TOCTOU Race Condition vulnerability in apport allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. An attacker may exit the crashed process and exploit PID recycling to spawn a root process with the same PID as the crashed process, which can then be used to escalate privileges. Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24, 2.20.9 versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.16 and 2.20.11 versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6. Was ZDI-CAN-11234.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-apport
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python-apport
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-python3-apport

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