Description
The crash reporting feature in Abrt allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging an execve by root after a chroot into a user-specified directory in a namedspaced environment.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 2
- Apport/Abrt (Ubuntu / Fedora) - Local Privilege Escalation EDB-36746 · local · Apr 14, 2015 · verified
- Abrt (Fedora 21) - Race Condition EDB-36747 · local · Apr 14, 2015 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211223
- [oss-security] 20150414 Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks mailing-list
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131422/Fedora-abrt-Race-Condition.html
- 36746 exploit
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131429/Abrt-Apport-Race-Condition-Symlink.html
- 74263 vdb-entry
- 36747 exploit
- https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/810
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131423/Linux-Apport-Abrt-Local-Root-Exploit.html
- 20150414 Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks mailing-list