Security Advisory

CVE-2019-11481

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-02-08 04:50:21

Last updated 2024-09-16 23:25:27

Assigner canonical

State PUBLISHED

Description

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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