CVE-2019-11482

Published: 29 October 2019

Sander Bos discovered a time of check to time of use (TOCTTOU) vulnerability in apport that allowed a user to cause core files to be written in arbitrary directories.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 4.7

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-2019-11482
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4171-1
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4171-2
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1839413

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