CVE-2019-11481

Published: 27 August 2019

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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
apport Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8)
	disco	Released (2.20.10-0ubuntu27.2)
	eoan	Released (2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Released (2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20)