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Low 3.1
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Low 3.8
apport get_modified_conffiles() function command injection
It was discovered that the get_modified_conffiles() function in backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py allowed injecting modified package names in a manner that would confuse the dpkg(1) call.
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Low 2.8
Apport reads PID files with elevated privileges
Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges. Apport then determines which user the crashed process belongs to by reading /proc/pid through get_pid_info() in data/apport. An unprivileged user could exploit thi…
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Low 3.3
apport created lock file in wrong directory
Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling.
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Low 3.8
Apport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlink
Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences.