USN-4051-1

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    USN-4051-1

    Published: 9 Jul 2019Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: apport vulnerability

    Details: Kevin Backhouse discovered a race-condition when reading the user's local Apport configuration. This could be used by a local attacker to cause Apport to include arbitrary files in a resulting crash report.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4051-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-7307

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: apport

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19

    Affected versions

    2.19.1-0ubuntu3
    2.19.2-0ubuntu1
    2.19.2-0ubuntu2
    2.19.2-0ubuntu3
    2.19.2-0ubuntu4
    2.19.2-0ubuntu5
    2.19.2-0ubuntu6
    2.19.2-0ubuntu8
    2.19.2-0ubuntu9
    2.19.3-0ubuntu1
    2.19.3-0ubuntu2
    2.19.3-0ubuntu3
    2.19.4-0ubuntu1
    2.19.4-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High