Description
Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition vulnerability on crash report ownership change in Apport allows for a possible privilege escalation opportunity. If fs.protected_symlinks is disabled, this can be exploited between the os.open and os.chown calls when the Apport cron script clears out crash files of size 0. A symlink with the same name as the deleted file can then be created upon which chown will be called, changing the file owner to root. Fixed in versions 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 and 2.20.11-0ubuntu22.
Published: 2020-04-22
Score: 5.6 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-29676 Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition vulnerability on crash report ownership change in Apport allows for a possible privilege escalation opportunity. If fs.protected_symlinks is disabled, this can be exploited between the os.open and os.chown calls when the Apport cron script clears out crash files of size 0. A symlink with the same name as the deleted file can then be created upon which chown will be called, changing the file owner to root. Fixed in versions 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 and 2.20.11-0ubuntu22.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4315-1 Apport vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4315-2 Apport vulnerabilities
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Apport Project Apport
Canonical Ubuntu Linux
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:53:27.660Z

Reserved: 2020-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-8833

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-22T22:15:12.577

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:39:31.937

Link: CVE-2020-8833

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