cve/2019/CVE-2019-11481.md

CVE-2019-11481

Description

Kevin Backhouse discovered that apport would read a user-supplied configuration file with elevated privileges. By replacing the file with a symbolic link, a user could get apport to read any file on the system as root, with unknown consequences.

POC

Reference

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubuntu-Apport-Whoopsie-DoS-Integer-Overflow.html

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon