Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-11481): Apport vulnerabilities
6
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P)
10/30/2019
11/07/2019
10/31/2019
05/01/2023
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-apport
- ubuntu-upgrade-python-apport
- ubuntu-upgrade-python3-apport
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