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CVE-2015-3142
medium
Description
The kernel-invoked coredump processor in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) does not properly check the ownership of files before writing core dumps to them, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging write permissions to the working directory of a crashed application.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212818
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75116
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5