CVE-2019-11485

apport created lock file in wrong directory

State: Published
Severity: 3.3 Low
Published: Feb 8, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Apr 23, 2019

Description

Sander Bos discovered Apport's lock file was in a world-writable directory which allowed all users to prevent crash handling.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.3 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	canonical

Weaknesses

CWE-412 Unrestricted Externally Accessible Lock

Affected Products

Product	Versions
apportCanonical	2.14.1 to before 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm2Affected 2.20.1 to before 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20Affected 2.20.9 to before 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.8Affected 2.20.11 to before 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.1Affected

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4171-2

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