Time-of-check Time-of-use Race Condition vulnerability on crash report ownership change in Apport allows for a possible privilege escalation opportunity. If fs.protected_symlinks is disabled, this can be exploited between the os.open and os.chown calls when the Apport cron script clears out crash files of size 0. A symlink with the same name as the deleted file can then be created upon which chown will be called, changing the file owner to root. Fixed in versions 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.8 and 2.20.11-0ubuntu22.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published: 2020-04-22T21:15:18.859159Z
Updated: 2024-09-16T20:53:27.660Z
Reserved: 2020-02-10T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-8833
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-04-22T22:15:12.577
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:39:31.937
Link: CVE-2020-8833
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