Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jun 12, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Feb 8, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jun 12, 2023
Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences.
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