PT-2022-19142 · Apport+2 · Apport+2

Gerrit Venema · Published 2022-05-17 · Updated 2024-07-11 · CVE-2022-28652

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions apport (affected versions not specified)

Description The ~/.config/apport/settings parsing is vulnerable to a "billion laughs" attack. This issue affects the parsing of settings in the apport configuration file, making it susceptible to a specific type of denial-of-service attack.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

XML Entity Expansion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-776

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-28652

USN-5427-1

USN-6894-1

Affected Products

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

Apport

References · 19

• 🔥 https://github.com/liumuqing/CVE-2021-3899_PoC · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28657 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-28652 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28652 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5427-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3899 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5427-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28655 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28652 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28652 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28652 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28658 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6894-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-28656 · Vendor Advisory