CVE-2019-15790
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2019
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
Apport reads PID files with elevated privileges
Apport reads and writes information on a crashed process to /proc/pid with elevated privileges. Apport then determines which user the crashed process belongs to by reading /proc/pid through get_pid_info() in data/apport. An unprivileged user could exploit this to read information about a privileged running process by exploiting PID recycling. This information could then be used to obtain ASLR offsets for a process with an existing memory corruption vulnerability. The initial fix introduced regressions in the Python Apport library due to a missing argument in Report.add_proc_environ in apport/report.py. It also caused an autopkgtest failure when reading /proc/pid and with Python 2 compatibility by reading /proc maps. The initial and subsequent regression fixes are in 2.20.11-0ubuntu16, 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6, 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12, 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.22 and 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm3.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Apport
- Vendor
- Canonical
- Product
- Apport
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
Unknown
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.14.1 | affected | custom | 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29+esm3 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 2.20.1 | affected | custom | 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.22 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 2.20.9 | affected | custom | 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.12 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 2.20.11 | affected | custom | 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6 | Unavailable |
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