CWE
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Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2020-8833: Apport race condition in crash report permissions

First published: Wed Apr 22 2020(Updated: )

Last updated 24 July 2024

Credit: security@ubuntu.com security@ubuntu.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=14.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=16.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=18.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=19.10
Apport Project Apport

Remedy

This ability to exploit this is likely mitigated by the Ubuntu default of fs.protected_symlinks=1

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