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CVE-2019-15790

Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges. Apport then determines which user the crashed process belongs to by reading /proc/pid through get_pid_info() in data/apport. An unprivileged user could exploit this to read information about a privileged running process by exploiting PID recycling. This information could then be used to obtain ASLR offsets for a process with an existing memory corruption vulnerability. The initial fix introduced regressions in the Python Apport library due to a missing argument in Report.add_proc_environ in apport/report.py. It also caused an autopkgtest failure when reading /proc/pid and with Python 2 compatibility by reading /proc maps. The initial and subsequent regression fixes are in 2.20.11-0ubuntu16, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.22 and 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm3.

CVSS 2.8 · LowBuzz score 21.1

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Why this CVE is surfacing

Buzz score total 21.1

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Buzz score components · mention 16.1 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Mention score
16.1
4 evidence mentions in the snapshot
Diversity score
5.0
1 sources across 1 categories
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0.0
No KEV entry observed
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0 OTX pulses
PoC score
0.0
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Evidence

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  • Ubuntu whoopsie integer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2019-11484)GitHub Security Lab

    This is the fourth and final post in a series about Ubuntu’s crash reporting system. We’ll review CVE-2019-11484, a vulnerability in whoopsie which enables a local attacker to get a shell as the whoopsie user, thereby gaining the ability to read any crash report.

    vendorgithub.blogDec 23, 2019, 6:10 PM
  • Ubuntu apport PID recycling security vulnerability (CVE-2019-15790)GitHub Security Lab

    This is the third post in a series about Ubuntu’s crash reporting system. We’ll review CVE-2019-15790, a vulnerability in apport that enables a local attacker to obtain the ASLR offsets for any process they can start (or restart).

    vendorgithub.blogDec 19, 2019, 5:12 PM
  • Ubuntu apport TOCTOU security vulnerability (CVE-2019-7307)GitHub Security Lab

    This is the second post in our series about Ubuntu’s crash reporting system. We’ll review CVE-2019-7307, a TOCTOU vulnerability that enables a local attacker to include the contents of any file on the system in a crash report.

    vendorgithub.blogDec 17, 2019, 5:19 PM
  • Whoopsie-daisy: Chaining accidental features of Ubuntu’s crash reporter to get Local Privilege EscalationGitHub Security Lab

    This post summarizes several security vulnerabilities in Ubuntu’s crash reporting system: CVE-2019-7307, CVE-2019-11476, CVE-2019-11481, CVE-2019-11484, CVE-2019-15790. When chained together, they allow an unprivileged user to read arbitrary files on the system.

    vendorgithub.blogDec 12, 2019, 6:23 PM

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