Executive Summary

Summary
Title Apport vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2569-1 First vendor Publication 2015-04-14
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-04-14
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Apport could be tricked into running programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - apport: automatically generate crash reports for debugging

Details:

Stéphane Graber and Tavis Ormandy independently discovered that Apport incorrectly handled the crash reporting feature. A local attacker could use this issue to gain elevated privileges.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
apport 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
apport 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.9

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2569-1
CVE-2015-1318

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.14.7-0ubuntu8.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.14.1-0ubuntu3.9

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2569-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 18

Metasploit Database

id Description
2015-03-31 Apport / ABRT chroot Privilege Escalation

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-04-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2569-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2569-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2020-05-23 13:17:15
  • Multiple Updates
2015-04-20 21:31:36
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2015-04-18 13:27:04
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2015-04-17 21:31:27
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2015-04-16 13:28:26
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2015-04-14 17:24:42
  • First insertion