vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5122-1: Apport vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Oct 25, 2021
Added
Oct 26, 2021
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description


It was discovered that Apport could be tricked into writing core files as root into arbitrary directories in certain scenarios. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. This update will cause Apport to generate all core files in the /var/lib/apport/coredump directory.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-apportubuntu-upgrade-python3-apport
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