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High USN-4449-2 3 CVEs

apport vulnerabilities

Published Sep 2, 2020 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

USN-4449-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apport. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Ryota Shiga working with Trend Micro´s Zero Day Initiative, discovered that
Apport incorrectly dropped privileges when making certain D-Bus calls. A
local attacker could use this issue to read arbitrary files.
(CVE-2020-11936)

Seong-Joong Kim discovered that Apport incorrectly parsed configuration
files. A local attacker could use this issue to cause Apport to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-15701)

Ryota Shiga working with Trend Micro´s Zero Day Initiative, discovered that
Apport incorrectly implemented certain checks. A local attacker could use
this issue to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-15702)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS apport 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm5

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.0

    TOCTOU in apport

    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…

  • Medium 5.5

    Unhandled exception in apport

    An unhandled exception in check_ignored() in apport/report.py can be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of service. If the mtime attribute is a string value in apport-ignore.xml, it will trigger an unhandled exception, resulting in a crash. Fixed…

  • Low 3.1

    gdbus setgid privilege escalation

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11936
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15701
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15702