Access Restriction Bypass Affecting apport package, versions <2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published25 Aug 2017
- disclosed25 Aug 2017
Introduced: 25 Aug 2017
CVE-2015-1324 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 apport to version 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apport package and not the apport package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
Apport before 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1 as packaged in Ubuntu 15.04, before 2.14.70ubuntu8.5 as packaged in Ubuntu 14.10, before 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11 as packaged in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and before 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.9 as packaged in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS allow local users to write to arbitrary files and gain root privileges by leveraging incorrect handling of permissions when generating core dumps for setuid binaries.