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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2020-04-27T00:00:00

Updated: 2023-06-12T00:00:00

Reserved: 2019-08-29T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2019-15790

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-28T00:15:12.913

Modified: 2023-06-12T07:15:11.920


Link: CVE-2019-15790

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