CVE-2019-11481— Apport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlink
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2019-11481
Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
Apport reads arbitrary files if ~/.config/apport/settings is a symlink
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability 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.
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Title
Apport 后置链接漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Apport是一款用于收集并反馈错误信息（当应用程序崩溃时操作系统认为有用的信息）的工具包。 Apport中存在安全漏洞。攻击者可利用该漏洞以root身份读取用户配置文件。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Affected Products
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Same Patch Batch · Canonical · 2020-02-08 · 5 CVEs total
| CVE-2019-11483 | 7.0 HIGH | Apport 安全漏洞 |
| CVE-2019-11484 | 6.3 MEDIUM | Integer overflow in bson_ensure_space |
| CVE-2019-11482 | 4.2 MEDIUM | Race condition between reading current working directory and writing a core dump |
| CVE-2019-11485 | 3.3 LOW | apport created lock file in wrong directory |
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