Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges. Apport then determines which user the crashed process belongs to by reading /proc/pid through get_pid_info() in data/apport. An unprivileged user could exploit this to read information about a privileged running process by exploiting PID recycling. This information could then be used to obtain ASLR offsets for a process with an existing memory corruption vulnerability. The initial fix introduced regressions in the Python Apport library due to a missing argument in Report.add_proc_environ in apport/report.py. It also caused an autopkgtest failure when reading /proc/pid and with Python 2 compatibility by reading /proc maps. The initial and subsequent regression fixes are in 2.20.11-0ubuntu16, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.22 and 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm3.
References
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-2/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-3/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1851806 | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1854237 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1839795 | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1850929 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-4/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4171-5/ | Third Party Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2020-04-27 17:15
Updated : 2020-05-13 17:58
NVD link : CVE-2019-15790
Mitre link : CVE-2019-15790
JSON object : View
CWE
CWE-269
Improper Privilege Management
Products Affected
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
apport_project
- apport