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  • High 7.3

    apport: Local privilege escalation to root via ldd execution on an attacker-controlled ExecutablePath in automatic crash report processing

    In apport before 2.37.0, an improper privilege management vulnerability allows an unprivileged local attacker to gain root privileges on systems where automatic crash reporting is enabled. The automatic crash report processing pipeline runs as root and execut…

  • High 7.5

    Users can consume unlimited disk space in /var/crash

  • High 7.8

    Apport does not disable python crash handler before entering chroot

  • High 7.1

    is_closing_session() allows users to create arbitrary tcp dbus connections

  • High 7.8

    Apport can be tricked into connecting to arbitrary sockets as the root user

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2021-3899 Public exploit

    There is a race condition in the 'replaced executable' detection that, with the correct local configuration, allow an a…

  • High 7.7
    CVE-2023-1326 Public exploit

    local privilege escalation in apport-cli

    A privilege escalation attack was found in apport-cli 2.26.0 and earlier which is similar to CVE-2023-26604. If a system is specially configured to allow unprivileged users to run sudo apport-cli, less is configured as the pager, and the terminal size can be …

  • High 7.3

    apport read_file() function could follow maliciously constructed symbolic links

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the xorg-hwe-18.04 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • High 7.3

    apport read_file() function could follow maliciously constructed symbolic links

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the xorg package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • High 7.3

    apport read_file() function could follow maliciously constructed symbolic links

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-17 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • High 7.3

    apport read_file() function could follow maliciously constructed symbolic links

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-15 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • High 7.3

    apport read_file() function could follow maliciously constructed symbolic links

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-16 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • High 7.3

    apport read_file() function could follow maliciously constructed symbolic links

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-14 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • High 7.3

    apport read_file() function could follow maliciously constructed symbolic links

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-8 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • High 7.3

    apport read_file() function could follow maliciously constructed symbolic links

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-13 package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • High 7.3

    apport read_file() function could follow maliciously constructed symbolic links

    It was discovered that read_file() in apport/hookutils.py would follow symbolic links or open FIFOs. When this function is used by the openjdk-lts package apport hooks, it could expose private data to other local users.

  • High 8.8

    apport can be stalled by reading a FIFO

    It was discovered that apport in data/apport did not properly open a report file to prevent hanging reads on a FIFO.

  • High 8.8

    apport improperly parses /proc/pid/stat

    It was discovered that the get_starttime() function in data/apport did not properly parse the /proc/pid/stat file from the kernel.

  • High 8.8

    apport improperly parses /proc/pid/status

    It was discovered that the get_pid_info() function in data/apport did not properly parse the /proc/pid/status file from the kernel.

  • 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…

  • High 7.0

    Sander Bos discovered Apport mishandled crash dumps originating from containers. This could be used by a local attacker…