PT-2015-5220 · Canonical+1 · Apport+2

Halfdog · Published 2015-09-24 · Updated 2017-07-24 · CVE-2015-1338

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apport versions prior to 2.19

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges via a symlink or hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.19, update to version 2.19 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-1338

SUSE-SU-2017:1938-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1938-1

USN-2744-1

Affected Products

Apport

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 21

• 🔥 http://halfdog.net/Security/2015/ApportKernelCrashdumpFileAccessVulnerabilities · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/38353 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133723/Ubuntu-Apport-kernel_crashdump-Symlink.html · Exploit
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2744-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1338 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1938-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1338 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1338 · Security Note
• https://launchpad.net/apport/trunk/2.19 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1338 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2744-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1338 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2744-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.suse.com/mailman/listinfo/sle-security-updates · Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Sep/101 · Note