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.
References
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1862933 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4315-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4315-2/ | Third Party Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2020-04-22 15:15
Updated : 2022-10-07 08:14
NVD link : CVE-2020-8833
Mitre link : CVE-2020-8833
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CWE
CWE-367
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Products Affected
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
apport_project
- apport