Executive Summary

Summary
Title Apport vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3664-1 First vendor Publication 2018-05-30
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-05-30
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 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 17.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Apport could be tricked into causing a denial of service or escalate privileges.

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

Details:

Sander Bos discovered that Apport incorrectly handled core dumps when certain files are missing from /proc. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, gain root privileges, or escape from containers.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1

Ubuntu 17.10:
apport 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.9

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
apport 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3664-1
CVE-2018-6552

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.7-0ubuntu3.9
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3664-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4

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Date Informations
2019-01-08 00:18:59
  • First insertion