CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-1338
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-10-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
kernel_crashdump in Apport before 2.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) symlink or (2) hard link attack on /var/crash/vmcore.log.
Affected configurations
• apport project apport (<= 2.18.1)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133723/Ubuntu-Apport-kernel_crashdump-Symlink.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Sep/101 seclists.org
- http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/ApportKernelCrashdumpFileAccessVulnerabilities/ Exploit
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2744-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1492570 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://launchpad.net/apport/trunk/2.19 Patch
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38353/ Exploit
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133723/Ubuntu-Apport-kernel_crashdump-Symlink.html Exploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Sep/101 seclists.org
- http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/ApportKernelCrashdumpFileAccessVulnerabilities/ Exploit
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2744-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1492570 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://launchpad.net/apport/trunk/2.19 Patch
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38353/ Exploit