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Unscored USN-2744-1 1 CVE

apport vulnerability

Published Sep 24, 2015 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Halfdog discovered that Apport incorrectly handled kernel crash dump files.
A local attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or
possibly elevate privileges. The default symlink protections for affected
releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS apport 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-1338 Public exploit

    kernel_crashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) or possibly g…

    apport Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1338