CVE-2021-25684

apport can be stalled by reading a FIFO

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Jun 11, 2021
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Jan 21, 2021

Description

It was discovered that apport in data/apport did not properly open a report file to prevent hanging reads on a FIFO.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	canonical

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
apportCanonical	2.20.1 to before 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30Affected 2.20.9 to before 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23Affected 2.20.11-0ubuntu27 to before 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16Affected 2.20.11-0ubuntu50 to before 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5Affected

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1912326
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9

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