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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.2 Medium

CVE-2019-11482

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

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Canonical apport

  • 2.14.1 to < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2affected
  • 2.20.1 to < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20affected
  • 2.20.9 to < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8affected
  • 2.20.11 to < 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1affected

References