CVE-2021-25684 (GCVE-0-2021-25684)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-06-11 02:20
Modified
2025-11-03 19:25
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Summary
It was discovered that apport in data/apport did not properly open a report file to prevent hanging reads on a FIFO.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical apport Version: 2.20.1   < 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30
Version: 2.20.9   < 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23
Version: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27   < 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Version: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50   < 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5
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