TOCTOU Race Condition vulnerability in apport allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. An attacker may exit the crashed process and exploit PID recycling to spawn a root process with the same PID as the crashed process, which can then be used to escalate privileges. Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24, 2.20.9 versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.16 and 2.20.11 versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6. Was ZDI-CAN-11234.
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Advisories
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EUVD |
EUVD-2020-7689 | TOCTOU Race Condition vulnerability in apport allows a local attacker to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. An attacker may exit the crashed process and exploit PID recycling to spawn a root process with the same PID as the crashed process, which can then be used to escalate privileges. Fixed in 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24, 2.20.9 versions prior to 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.16 and 2.20.11 versions prior to 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.6. Was ZDI-CAN-11234. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4449-1 | Apport vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-4449-2 | Apport vulnerabilities |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published:
Updated: 2025-11-03T19:25:30.971Z
Reserved: 2020-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2020-15702
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Status : Modified
Published: 2020-08-06T23:15:11.750
Modified: 2025-11-03T20:15:44.883
Link: CVE-2020-15702
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EUVD
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