| CVE-ID |
CVE-2020-8833
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| Description |
| Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition vulnerability on crash report ownership change in Apport allows for a possible privilege escalation opportunity. If fs.protected_symlinks is disabled, this can be exploited between the os.open and os.chown calls when the Apport cron script clears out crash files of size 0. A symlink with the same name as the deleted file can then be created upon which chown will be called, changing the file owner to root. Fixed in versions 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 and 2.20.11-0ubuntu22.
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| Assigning CNA |
| Canonical Ltd. |
| Date Record Created |
| 20200210 |
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| Phase (Legacy) |
| Assigned (20200210) |
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| Comments (Legacy) |
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| Proposed (Legacy) |
| N/A |
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