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Medium USN-7545-1 1 CVE

apport vulnerability

Published May 29, 2025 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Qualys discovered that Apport incorrectly handled metadata when
processing application crashes. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to leak sensitive information.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS apport 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.28
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS apport 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.7
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS apport 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.6
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS apport 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30+esm5
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.29+esm1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 4.7
    CVE-2025-5054 Public exploit

    Race Condition in Canonical Apport

    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 proc…

    Canonical Apport apport Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-5054