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	Upstream	Needs triage




	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Released (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8)
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Released (2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Released (2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11481
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4171-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4171-2
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1830862

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