VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 29, 2019· Updated Sep 16, 2024

Apport contains a TOCTTOU vulnerability when reading the users ~/.apport-ignore.xml

CVE-2019-7307

Description

Apport before versions 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm1, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7, 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1, 2.20.11-0ubuntu5 contained a TOCTTOU vulnerability when reading the users ~/.apport-ignore.xml file, which allows a local attacker to replace this file with a symlink to any other file on the system and so cause Apport to include the contents of this other file in the resulting crash report. The crash report could then be read by that user either by causing it to be uploaded and reported to Launchpad, or by leveraging some other vulnerability to read the resulting crash report, and so allow the user to read arbitrary files on the system.

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  • Range: <2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm1, <2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19, <2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7, <2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1, <2.20.11-0ubuntu5
  • Ubuntu/apportv5
    Range: before 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm1

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