CVE-2019-15790
Published: 29 October 2019
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.
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 3.3
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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apport Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Released
(2.20.11-0ubuntu10)
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8)
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| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20)
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Released
(2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2)
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