CVE-2019-11481

Description

Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-2

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-1

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubuntu-Apport-Whoopsie-DoS-Integer-Overflow.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3