CVE-2019-15790

apport: Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges

CVE-2019-15790 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.

Routine
CVSS
n/a
Medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0052
44th percentile

Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges. Apport then determines which user the crashed process belongs to by reading /proc/pid through get_pid_info() in data/apport. An unprivileged user could exploit this to read information about a privileged running process by exploiting PID recycling. This information could then be used to obtain ASLR offsets for a process with an existing memory corruption vulnerability. The initial fix introduced regressions in the Python Apport library due to a missing argument in Report.add_proc_environ in apport/report.py. It also caused an autopkgtest failure when reading /proc/pid and with Python 2 compatibility by reading /proc maps. The initial and subsequent regression fixes are in 2.20.11-0ubuntu16, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.22 and 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm3.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
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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