vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-8833): Apport vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 2, 2020
Added
Apr 3, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition vulnerability on crash report ownership change in Apport allows for a possible privilege escalation opportunity. If fs.protected_symlinks is disabled, this can be exploited between the os.open and os.chown calls when the Apport cron script clears out crash files of size 0. A symlink with the same name as the deleted file can then be created upon which chown will be called, changing the file owner to root. Fixed in versions 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 and 2.20.11-0ubuntu22.

Solutions

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