apport: Sander Bos discovered Apport mishandled crash dumps originating from containers
CVE-2019-11483 is fixed in 11 products on 1 platform, first by apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8, released October 28, 2019. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.
Sander Bos discovered Apport mishandled crash dumps originating from containers. This could be used by a local attacker to generate a crash report for a privileged process that is readable by an unprivileged user.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| apport · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| apport-gtk · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | apport-gtk 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| apport-kde · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | apport-kde 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| apport-noui · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | apport-noui 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| apport-retrace · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | apport-retrace 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| apport-valgrind · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | apport-valgrind 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| dh-apport · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | dh-apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| python-apport · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | python-apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| python-problem-report · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | python-problem-report 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| python3-apport · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | python3-apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
| python3-problem-report · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | python3-problem-report 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 | Oct 28, 2019 |
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