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CVE-2019-11482

Race condition between reading current working directory and writing a core dump

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Canonical apport

    From 2.14.1 · fixed in 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2; From 2.20.1 · fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20; From 2.20.9 · fixed in 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8; From 2.20.11 · fixed in 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1

References 2

usn.ubuntu.com