{"id":"USN-4449-1","summary":"apport vulnerabilities","details":"Ryota Shiga working with Trend Micro´s Zero Day Initiative, discovered that\nApport incorrectly dropped privileges when making certain D-Bus calls. A\nlocal attacker could use this issue to read arbitrary files.\n(CVE-2020-11936)\n\nSeong-Joong Kim discovered that Apport incorrectly parsed configuration\nfiles. A local attacker could use this issue to cause Apport to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-15701)\n\nRyota Shiga working with Trend Micro´s Zero Day Initiative, discovered that\nApport incorrectly implemented certain checks. A local attacker could use\nthis issue to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-15702)\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:54Z","published":"2020-08-04T17:05:51Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11936","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15701","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15702"],"upstream":["CVE-2020-11936","CVE-2020-15701","CVE-2020-15702","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-11936","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15701","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15702"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4449-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11936"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15701"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15702"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"apport","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/apport@2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24"}]}],"versions":["2.19.1-0ubuntu3","2.19.2-0ubuntu1","2.19.2-0ubuntu2","2.19.2-0ubuntu3","2.19.2-0ubuntu4","2.19.2-0ubuntu5","2.19.2-0ubuntu6","2.19.2-0ubuntu8","2.19.2-0ubuntu9","2.19.3-0ubuntu1","2.19.3-0ubuntu2","2.19.3-0ubuntu3","2.19.4-0ubuntu1","2.19.4-0ubuntu2","2.20-0ubuntu2","2.20-0ubuntu3","2.20.1-0ubuntu1","2.20.1-0ubuntu2","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.2","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.9","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.12","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.13","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.14","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.16","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.17","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.20","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.21","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.22","2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"apport"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"apport-gtk"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"apport-kde"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"apport-noui"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"apport-retrace"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"apport-valgrind"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"dh-apport"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"python-apport"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"python-problem-report"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"python3-apport"},{"binary_version":"2.20.1-0ubuntu2.24","binary_name":"python3-problem-report"}],"availability":"No 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