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CVE-2019-11482 (GCVE-0-2019-11482)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-02-08 04:50 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:00
VLAI
Title
Race condition between reading current working directory and writing a core dump
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.
Severity
4.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • Read user data with administrator privileges
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Canonical apport Affected: 2.14.1 , < 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2 (custom)
Affected: 2.20.1 , < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20 (custom)
Affected: 2.20.9 , < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8 (custom)
Affected: 2.20.11 , < 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-10-29 00:00
Credits
Sander Bos
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