
CVE-2020-11936 – Canonical Ubuntu apport Unnecessary Privileges Information Disclosure Vulnerability
https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2020-11936
05 Aug 2020 — gdbus setgid privilege escalation This vulnerability allows local attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Canonical Ubuntu. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the apport package. The issue results from the use of unnecessary privileges. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to escalate privileges and execute code... • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1885633 •

CVE-2019-7307 – Apport contains a TOCTTOU vulnerability when reading the users ~/.apport-ignore.xml
https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2019-7307
09 Jul 2019 — Apport before versions 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm1, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7, 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1, 2.20.11-0ubuntu5 contained a TOCTTOU vulnerability when reading the users ~/.apport-ignore.xml file, which allows a local attacker to replace this file with a symlink to any other file on the system and so cause Apport to include the contents of this other file in the resulting crash report. The crash report could then be read by that user either by causing it to be uploaded and reported to Launchpad,... • https://packetstorm.news/files/id/172858 • CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition •

CVE-2018-6552 – Apport treats the container PID as the global PID when /proc/<global_pid>/ is missing
https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2018-6552
31 May 2018 — Apport does not properly handle crashes originating from a PID namespace allowing local users to create certain files as root which an attacker could leverage to perform a denial of service via resource exhaustion, possibly gain root privileges, or escape from containers. The is_same_ns() function returns True when /proc/