vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-7545-1 (CVE-2025-5054): Apport vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N) | May 29, 2025 | May 30, 2025 | Jun 3, 2025 |
Description
Race condition in Canonical apport up to and including 2.32.0 allows a local attacker to leak sensitive information via PID-reuse by leveraging namespaces.
When handling a crash, the function `_check_global_pid_and_forward`, which detects if the crashing process resided in a container, was being called before `consistency_checks`, which attempts to detect if the crashing process had been replaced. Because of this, if a process crashed and was quickly replaced with a containerized one, apport could be made to forward the core dump to the container, potentially leaking sensitive information. `consistency_checks` is now being called before `_check_global_pid_and_forward`. Additionally, given that the PID-reuse race condition cannot be reliably detected from userspace alone, crashes are only forwarded to containers if the kernel provided a pidfd, or if the crashing process was unprivileged (i.e., if dump mode == 1).
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