
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/